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My mother is stuck with some neighbors on the second floor of my house. First floor is 3/4 flooded. They are OK for now but food and water is going to become a
by univalent 11y ago
My mother is stuck with some neighbors on the second floor of my house. First floor is 3/4 flooded. They are OK for now but food and water is going to become a problem if the rains don't let up :-(
My aunt had to be evacuated by boat from her place. I haven't lived in Chennai over 15 years but it is surreal to see the pictures.
Very frustrating that the government spent money on laying fiber and setting up a subway system over the past few years without doing anything to improve the drainage system. The city faces cyclones every year. This was just waiting to happen.
- praneshp 11y agoI empathize with you (my dad lives in chennai, and we are yet to make contact with one of my friends). The worst seems to be over, so hopefully the city will be fine. I moved out 3 years ago, so I wanted to reply to the fiber/subway part of your comment. Those two were absolutely essential, and a better drainage system would not have helped much in the floods. In the last 10 years or so, there has been ridiculous construction on what used to be lakes, and today the worst affected areas are those. See my comment here on HN from almost 2 years ago . (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7881544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7881544). This was waiting to happen, but not because the drainage system sucks, there is literally nowhere to drain the water off to.