Morning downpour disrupts life in Hyderabad

Heavy rainstorm floods Hyderabad, causing chaos, traffic disruptions, power outages, and waterlogging; authorities issue alerts and warnings.

Early morning rainstorm that continued for two hours left the city gasping on Tuesday, turning roads into gushing streams, colonies into lakes and two wheelers and four wheelers into unusable flotsam.

The downpour which began at about 3 a.m., dumped 13.2 centmetres of rain in Saroornagar, 12.7 cm in Yousufguda, and 12.5 cm in Uppal. Rajendranagar and LB Nagar both received over 12 cm of rain by 8.30 a.m.

Marredpally, Golconda, Rajendranagar, Nampally, Maruthinagar, Gayatrinagar, Mallapur, Cantonment, Dabeerpura, Musheerabad, Bahadurpura, and other areas received over 10 cm of rainfall, according to the automatic weather gauges maintained by Telangana Development Planning Society.

Several major roads got flooded severely disrupting vehicular traffic, and commuters turning to Metro Rail for travel across the City, the stations of which were unusually crowded during morning hours.

Reports of heavy inundation arrived from places such as Musheerabad, Begumpet, Dilsukhnagar, Saroornagar, LB Nagar, Chaderghat, Chandrayangutta, Quthbullahpur, Secunderabad and others.

Water entered homes at locations such as Regimental Bazar, while the Road Under Bridge between Begumpet and Balkampet was closed due to waterlogging. There was heavy water stagnation on Warangal Highway. Monsoon emergency teams worked overtime clearing water, and making the roads motorable again. Trees and tree branches fell on roads blocking traffic, and wherever they fell on electrical lines, power disruptions were reported.

Rainwater entered the meeting halls in the basement of Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Baghlingampally, and Chaitanyapuri police station where cops were seen emptying the water using buckets.