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Mumbai on red alert - City has been waterlogged as heavy rainfall likely for the next 48 hours!

By alagu, 04 August, 2020
India, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Heavy rains

Mumbai has been spelled with red alert on Tuesday as the sequel of the extremely heavy rain that has inundated most parts of India's financial capital by disrupting the normal lives of the residents as the city's corporation has issued advisories to the residents to refrain from exiting the residences. 

According to the reports, several areas of the city have been submerged after heavy rain that lashed out throughout the night of Monday and morning hours of Tuesday. The heavy showers have also flooded Thane district and it has affected the local train services and road traffic movement on Tuesday morning. The Red alert for 'extremely heavy rainfall' has been issued to Mumbai on Tuesday and Wednesday as the heavy rainfall is expected to continue for the next 48 hours. 

 

Apart from Mumbai, the areas like Thane, Pune, Raigad, and Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra have been spelled with the red alert. As Mumbai has witnessed heavy showers so far, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has appealed to the people to stay indoors and also instructed the commercial establishments, apart from the essential services, to remain closed on Tuesday. 

 

The railway tracks were inundated by the heavy rainfall and the suburban train services have been stopped. The BMC has deployed high capacity water pumps to discharge water from the water-logged areas. Maharashtra state minister Aaditya Thackeray took to Twitter and said, "Stay home! We’ve been monitoring the situation and the Mumbai corporation is working round the clock. Please cooperate and stay home".

 

Apart from the water-loggings, there was a huge landslide at Mumbai's Western Express Highway near Malad which further blocked the traffic. According to ANI, India Meteorological Department said that intense to very intense rainfall likely to continue in many parts of Mumbai till Tuesday evening. The BMC Commissioner said that the city has a flood-like situation and 230 mm rainfall occurred within ten hours.

While rainwater submerged important roads, it also has entered houses of the residents in many areas. With the view of the heavy rains, the Bombay High Court has suspended all the hearings of Tuesday while most of the routes have been closed and the city's public transport has been using detours and the corporation has put fire brigade on alert and it has deployed staff and 299 pumping machines to discharge the rainwater. 

 

According to the reports, the streets and areas of Mumbai would usually get flooded every year during the monsoon from June to September or October and the city would see major disruptions to the normal lives and damages to the properties. In 2019, the extremely heavy rainfall in a decade had caused the city to lose dozens of lives and unprecedented disruptions. 

 

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