It was not just people living in low-level areas who are facing the brunt of nature’s fury, but also policemen and women at Avadi and Muthapudupet.
In Muthapudupet police station, the wall of the first floor collapsed onto the cement roof of the reception area, on Sunday morning.
The station, built in 1987 by residents themselves, has been in a dilapidated state. The policemen and residents have sent petitions to the government seeking a new building.
In Avadi All Women police station, which was established two decades ago and has 20 women police, water enters the station every time it rains. “This time there was knee-deep rainwater that was was mixed with sewage,” staff there told The Hindu.
“As we cannot enter the station, we have shifted all documents to the police quarters nearby,” they said. They want the station to be shifted to the main road where there is no inundation.
