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Defense minister says transport is a problem for sending in more troops. NDRF head says waiting for the airport to open for sending in more teams. WTF? Aren't they supposed to reach the place one way or another?

Troops Ready for Chennai, Transport a Problem: Manohar Parrikkar


Navy and some NDRF teams are already operating in rescue teams. By the time airport opens, water might recede.

Chennai | Agencies | Updated: December 02, 2015 13:01 IST

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Forces are having trouble reaching Chennai since the airport is closed, defence minster Manohar Parrikar has said.

CHENNAI: Deluged Chennai will have as many troops as needed to rescue marooned people, Defence minister Manohar Parrikar has said. But the minister said they were facing difficulty in reaching the city "as the airport is also not operating".

Teams from the Army, Navy, Air Force and National Disaster Response Force, or NDRF, are already at work in the city, ferrying people to safety from buses, cars and flooded houses.

The non-stop torrential rains since last night let up in the morning, but the flooded streets have left the commuters stranded. With water on the runway, the airport has been shut at least till tomorrow morning.


Two columns of army had been at work since last evening in the suburban areas of Tambaram and Oorapakkam, where floods had worsened after the Chembarakam lake overflowed and an unprecedented 26,000 cusecs of water was released.


Navy personnel have been deployed in Chennai's low-lying Saidapet area to rescue marooned people. Three Air Force choppers have also joined the relief work.

The NDRF is airlifting another 15 teams - each comprising 40 personnel -- to the rain-battered state. While 10 teams are being airlifted from Bhubaneshwar to Tirupati, another five teams are being lifted from Delhi, NDRF chief OP Singh said. The teams are carrying 20 inflatable boats along with them for the rescue operations.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa assuring all possible help. "Spoke to Jayalalithaaji on the flood situation in parts of Tamil Nadu. Assured all possible support & cooperation in this unfortunate hour," PM Modi had tweeted.

"The Prime Minister has issued a memorandum and we have deployed our Central team there to assess the situation and make a report so that every possible help can also reach there," Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said.
 
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Oh yes!!!
@nair was stuck at the Chennai airport last night. All the flights have been cancelled, thousands of people have been moved to temporary shelters and the army has been called in.
A depression in Bay of Bengal has led to heavy rainfall in coastal areas such as Chennai.
Praying for those effected by Chennai floods.

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I've been tracking this since this started, City I grew up in. Very sad.
 
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My uncle is stuck in Chennai...he called us at 11 am today but since then his number is not reachable....Can anybody confirm if this is because of network issue? We all are hoping so...
 
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My uncle is stuck in Chennai...he called us at 11 am today but since then his number is not reachable....Can anybody confirm if this is because of network issue? We all are hoping so...
All numbers I have tried have busy lines. Some areas do not have power, so phones might last only as long as power lasts. There are helpline numbers which you can call and find about the situation of any specific area.
 
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i didn't know about it until evening when i put on aajtak randomly... the water is ridiculously everywhere... why didn't madras learn from the bombay flood of 2005??

this picture is such a irony...

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National media started talking about Chennai Rains just today or else they ignored this all together.
Anyway this is what they still talking about

so you think in the floods should start riots??
 
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I saw it few days ago in news. The Indian newspapers concentrate on northern Indian news like Cow lynchings than on the southern Indian news like flooding in Chennai. South India is backwaters not really in the news only if there is a cow related news like Karnataka CM eating beef or Kerala beef eaters.
 
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i didn't know about it until evening when i put on aajtak randomly... the water is ridiculously everywhere... why didn't madras learn from the bombay flood of 2005??

this picture is such a irony...

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so you think in the floods should start riots??
South Chennai is the bastion of real estate mafia. They occupied lakes, lake banks and encroached on even lake bed effectively blocking path of the water. Both the major parties are allied with the real estate czars and keep sanctioning water connections to their cronies who occupy these areas. Even small time politicos have resorted to land grab here. I hope this will be the end of overpriced real estate in Chennai. The costs are on par with Mumbai/Bangalore but amenities nowhere close to any city like that. Half the apartments here survive on tanker water for daily uses round the year.

Chennai is historically a water starved city. People did not expect to see so much water in their lifetime in Chennai. I would say this is completely man made disaster. Nobody bothered to make the drains to their capacity. Even storm water drains(which are supposed to suck in every drop of water near them and into the river or sea) are overflowing pushing water onto the roads.
 
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South Chennai is the bastion of real estate mafia. They occupied lakes, lake banks and encroached on even lake bed effectively blocking path of the water. Both the major parties are allied with the real estate czars and keep sanctioning water connections to their cronies who occupy these areas. Even small time politicos have resorted to land grab here.

Same in Karachi where land mafia also occupied lands along the rivers and sold them to poor people and there is flooding when there are heavy rains.
 
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I saw it few days ago in news. The Indian newspapers concentrate on northern Indian news like Cow lynchings than on the southern Indian news like flooding in Chennai. South India is backwaters not really in the news only if there is a cow related news like Karnataka CM eating beef or Kerala beef eaters.
Sadly I have to agree with you here. I had to struggle to get the weather forecast or to confirm the hundred rumors going around.

Same in Karachi where land mafia also occupied lands along the rivers and sold them to poor people and there is flooding when there are heavy rains.
Yeah. At least with the cities near coast, flooding is unforgivable. Plans and layouts have to be enforced and drainage should be made tolerant to such heavy water flows.

Btw what major rivers flow by Karachi?

i didn't know about it until evening when i put on aajtak randomly... the water is ridiculously everywhere... why didn't madras learn from the bombay flood of 2005??
People here may be educated and enlightened to learn things from all over the world. But Madras the city doesn't learn lessons from anywhere. The city is left in the hands of politicians and they never learn, even from their own mistakes.
 
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Half the apartments here survive on tanker water for daily uses round the year.

ah... i thought it was only the slums and the lower class areas that had the tankers coming around.

according to [1], the population of madras is 4.8 million... but there are other cities with more population than that ( bangalore, i suppose ) but they don't have the extreme water shortage or flooding problems that madras has... turns out that madras mostly depends on ground water, and from the pictures of the flood, madras is a terribly constructed place.

Nobody bothered to make the drains to their capacity. Even storm water drains(which are supposed to suck in every drop of water near them and into the river or sea) are overflowing pushing water onto the roads.

found this [2], a article from 2012 which speaks of combining storm water drainage and ground water recharge... seems the city corporation did nothing about it.

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reference...

[1] Population of Chennai 2015- Chennai Population

[2] Can storm water drains help in recharging groundwater? - The case of Chennai, Tamil Nadu
 
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