Rain floods southern districts
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Heavy rain lashing the southern part of the State for the third day in succession on Tuesday has set the rivers of the region overflowing, causing flooding and misery.
A 42-year-old man, named Ramesh, who went fishing at Ayathil, near Kollam, was drowned in the swirling floodwaters on Tuesday morning. The rivers Palliman, Ithikkara, Kunduman and Kallada were in spate. Many areas in the western part of Kollam district were inundated damaging nearly a 1,000 houses. As many as 1,273 families had been shifted to relief camps.
Kollam Collector Devendrakumar Dhudawat has declared a holiday for schools up to the Plus Two level on Wednesday.
In Thiruvananthapuram, the worst affected areas were the taluks of Chirayinkeezhu and Nedumangad. Five houses were destroyed and 385 houses damaged in the district. Five relief camps had been opened.
The district administration of Kollam asked people living on either side of the Kallada river to move to safer places since the shutters of the Thenmala dam would have to be opened any moment. The water level in the reservoir touched a height of 114.92 metres by Tuesday evening against the full reservoir level of 115.82 m.
The meteorology centre in Thiruvananthapuram said heavy rainfall exceeding 7 cm on the gauge was likely to occur at isolated places in the State till Thursday morning. The heavier of the downpours were likely to be in the southern districts.
An upper air cyclonic circulation was persisting over southeast Arabian Sea on Tuesday. Also persisting since Monday was a low pressure system over west-central and adjoining parts of southeast and east-central Bay of Bengal promising the continuation of the rain in the southern peninsula.
A 42-year-old man, named Ramesh, who went fishing at Ayathil, near Kollam, was drowned in the swirling floodwaters on Tuesday morning. The rivers Palliman, Ithikkara, Kunduman and Kallada were in spate. Many areas in the western part of Kollam district were inundated damaging nearly a 1,000 houses. As many as 1,273 families had been shifted to relief camps.
Kollam Collector Devendrakumar Dhudawat has declared a holiday for schools up to the Plus Two level on Wednesday.
In Thiruvananthapuram, the worst affected areas were the taluks of Chirayinkeezhu and Nedumangad. Five houses were destroyed and 385 houses damaged in the district. Five relief camps had been opened.
The district administration of Kollam asked people living on either side of the Kallada river to move to safer places since the shutters of the Thenmala dam would have to be opened any moment. The water level in the reservoir touched a height of 114.92 metres by Tuesday evening against the full reservoir level of 115.82 m.
The meteorology centre in Thiruvananthapuram said heavy rainfall exceeding 7 cm on the gauge was likely to occur at isolated places in the State till Thursday morning. The heavier of the downpours were likely to be in the southern districts.
An upper air cyclonic circulation was persisting over southeast Arabian Sea on Tuesday. Also persisting since Monday was a low pressure system over west-central and adjoining parts of southeast and east-central Bay of Bengal promising the continuation of the rain in the southern peninsula.
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