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Showers of blessing?: Vehicles move through a waterlogged road during the incessant rain in the city on Monday. HYDERABAD: Alas, it proved to be another manic Monday. The heavy downpour on Monday evening, which lasted for nearly two hours, along with Arogya Matha celebrations at Khairatabad and the usual waterlogging hotspots, led to gridlocks on all the main road-corridors, without any exception. By 8.30 p.m. on Monday, the city received over 40 mm of rainfall. With nearly three lakh pilgrims reaching Mother Mary’s church at Khairatabad, the clouds opened up, leaving every stretch, extending as far as Malakpet, Dilsukhnagar and Saroornagar on one side and Tarnaka-Uppal on the other, packed with vehicles. Jams everywherePeople who started at 6.30 p.m. from various offices located at Ameerpet to their homes, reached Malakpet, Chanderghat and Saroornagar by 8.30 p.m. and even in some cases by 9 p.m. The Raj Bhavan stretch was submerged in knee deep water, even as the skeletal municipal staff tried their best to ease the waterlogging points. Similar waterlogging was witnessed near Secunderabad CTO flyover, the Mettuguda-Tarnaka stretch, HPS Begumpet stretch and RTC crossroads. It was as if the whole city was under the clutch of traffic jams. Not a single road stretch in the twin cities was left untouched by it. Main roads of Begumpet, Ameerpet, Khairatabad, Lakdi-ka-pul, Chaderghat, Malakpet, Saroornagar, Tarnaka, RTC Crossroads, Vidyanagar crossroads, Uppal were chock-a-block with vehicles. Agonizing experience“I reached home at 9 p.m. after struggling through Abids, Chaderghat till Saroornagar. It was hell, because everywhere the auto, in which I was travelling, was running into knee-deep water, potholes and traffic. The circuitous route, taken to avoid jams, from Ameerpet to Dilsukhnagar cost me Rs. 200,” said T. Sandeepa, working in an office near Raj Bhavan. The Hyderabad Met Department has forecast similar weather, characterised by isolated thundershowers in parts of city, for another two days. “By 8.30 p.m., the city received over 40 mm of rainfall. It may increase a bit, as rain continued till late on Monday night,” said Hyderabad Met Director M. Satya Kumar.
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