‘Cloud-burst’ like rainfall cripples North Bengaluru, inundates several localities

With lakes filling to the brim owed to the rain, the overflowing h2o bodies person go a large interest for residents. Kogilu Lake adjacent Kendriya Vihar Apartment analyzable successful Yelahanka overflowed prompting authorities to deploy boats for rescue operations. The flat complex, wherever authorities are accused of encroaching into portions of the lake, was inundated with 2 to 3 feet of water, damaging respective vehicles.

The bund of Doddabommasandra Lake, located adjacent Vidyaranyapura, breached owed to dense rainfall inundating low-lying areas astir the vicinity. Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, who visited the spot, said the bund was breached for the archetypal clip successful the past 17-18 years. “Due to this, h2o has entered low-lying areas astir Kodigehalli. The tempest h2o drains excessively overflowed and entered layouts,” helium said, adding that the outflow from Doddabommasandra Lake had reduced since morning.

Gowda said owed to the concentrated ‘cloud-burst-like rainfall’ determination was astir 2.5 to 3 feet of h2o successful immoderate layouts and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) was mobilising pumps to drain the water. He said arsenic much rainfall is forecast, determination are fears that the concern would repetition adjacent if the h2o receded during the day. Among different areas that were affected owed to the overflowing Doddabommasandra Lake were Tata Nagar, Bhadrappa Layout, and Balaji Layout.

Traffic question was besides affected successful antithetic parts of the city, including the Outer Ring Road. In an alert, the Bellandur Traffic Police said waterlogging connected the roadworthy has resulted successful slow-moving postulation adjacent Ecospace Junction. Stretches on Sarjapur roadworthy were besides inundated.

Social media users highlighted the plight of respective localities owed to the downpour.

Tata Nagar successful North Bengaluru aft the deluge past nighttime 😲

Credits to Siddharth #BengaluruRains#BangaloreRains pic.twitter.com/4nxDAfsAGv

— Namma Karnataka Weather (@namma_vjy) October 22, 2024

Another station noted that residents of Rainbow Drive successful Sarjapur Road were affected by dense flooding.

Residents of Rainbow Drive connected Sarjapur roadworthy woke up to dense flooding this greeting arsenic the vicinity water breached. #Bengaluru #BengaluruRains pic.twitter.com/Ui6qPDv28Y

— North BangalorePost (@nBangalorepost) October 22, 2024

In a post, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Northeast division, said the work roadworthy from Kogilu junction towards IAF was closed to alteration rescue operations of those stranded astatine Kendriya Vihar Apartments.

Service roadworthy from kogilu junction towards IAF is closed to alteration rescue pic.twitter.com/eGb1j05D31

— ACP Traffic Northeast Pradeep (@acpnortheasttr) October 22, 2024

Another station claimed that radical were catching food successful flood waters astatine Tatanagar.

People are catching fishes successful caller bengaluru, tatanagar😂😂 #BengaluruFloods #BengaluruRains @hd_kumaraswamy pic.twitter.com/KeUjJoRboB

— Bhargav Acharya (@Iamachar) October 22, 2024

According to reports, aerial postulation was besides disrupted owed to the dense rainfall connected Monday evening and 20 flights were delayed portion 5 were diverted.

Apart from Bengaluru, dense rainfall was besides reported successful interior parts of Karnataka. The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre has issued a flood alert for low-lying areas downstream of Tungabhadra Dam. Outflow from the dam is expected to summation to up to 1.2 lakh cusecs owed to dense rainfall successful catchment areas.