JOIN US Wednesday night’s 63 mm rainfall heavy rains poured miseries on scores of Bangaloreans as hundreds of houses were flooded, trees and electric poles uprooted and vehicles damaged.
At least six cars and some bikes parked on 6th ‘B’ Main, HRBR Layout, 2nd Block, were submerged and vehicle owners spent close to five hours to retrieve them.
The basements of about seven houses in the same street were flooded as sewage water spilled from manholes. Keeping aside their daily chores, the affected residents were seen pumping out the dirty water on Thursday.
Anilesh Seth, one of them, said: “The drawing room, the library and the garage in our house were flooded. We kept pumping out water with buckets at 1 am. We could not sleep peacefully.”
Residents of Balaji Layout, Rajarajeshwarinagar; Jnanabharathi Layout, Neelasandra and Ejipura too had sleepless night on Wednesday as rainwater mixed with sewage entered their homes.
Sewage water from a nearby storm water inundated about 50 houses at Ambedkar Nagar, Yelahanka New Town. Yelahanka MLA, SR Vishwanath, visited the spot and assured the residents that steps would be taken to improve the civic infrastructure in the area.
Residents of Koramangala were frustrated that water had flooded their homes, especially in 4th Block. They demanded the Koramangala subdivision Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), SS Pujari, to immediately take action to solve the flooding.
There were reports that residents had a heated argument with Pujari and snatched the key of his car when he came for inspection on Thursday. But Pujari denied the reports and told Deccan Herald: “They just requested me to take action. Water has already been pumped out from all the affected houses. Steps will be taken to remodel the SWD located nearby as water comes from there.”
Waterlogging
Waterlogging was reported in KR Puram, Ramamurthy Nagar Church bus stop, Indian Express Circle, Venkateshpuram, Jayanagar, Nagawarapalya main road, front of Raj Bhavan Gate, Tannery Road and other areas following the rainfall. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said that it received complaints from public about trees being uprooted at Ramamurthy Nagar police station, Buttarahalli, Shivajinagar, Sagar Theatre, Menaka theatre at K G Road, Jalahalli Quarters and Jnanabharathi 1st Block at Kengeri Upanagara.
South zone was the worst affected. As many as nine trees were uprooted at 16 Main BTM Layout, Jayanagar 4th Block, 4th ‘T’ Block, Kalidasa Layout , 2nd Cross; ISRO Layout, JP Nagar 100 Feet Main Road and Koramangala. But all the trees were cleared by Thursday morning, a staffer at the Palike’s control room said.
Meanwhile, transformers and electricity poles were damaged mainly in south zone. Power cuts were reported on Wednesday night at Yelahanka New Town, Vijaya Bank Layout, Vijayanagar, HBR Layout, Indiranagar, Marenahalli, Baiyappanahalli, RPC Layout, Shanthinagar, Rajarajeshwarinagar and Jayanagar, according to N Jayanthi, Bangalore Electricity Supply and Company Limited (Bescom) general manager (Customer Relations).