A number of residential localities along East Coast Road suffered extensive damage to property following the heavy rains accompanied by winds on Tuesday evening and Wednesday.
This resulted in several trees being uprooted, garbage strewn about and severe damages to homes – both permanent concrete houses as well as thatched huts.
Suganthy Venugopalan Nair of Injambakkam said their car shed, which contained a washing machine, clothes and books was badly hit.
“The roof was lifted off, the clothes are gone and the books and machine are damaged,” she said.
A power supply pole also fell on her street, she said, leading to a power supply cut from 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday to 2.30 in the afternoon on Wednesday.
“The wind was very loud too. The gate of the school opposite our home is damaged, and the asbestos sheets on the bathrooms there too, are broken. A garbage can has upturned and there is trash on the street,” she said. Residents also complained of water stagnation in the area.
Huts that line the coastal road were also badly damaged with thatched roofs and walls and caving in, and some cars too, were damaged, residents said.
At least six trees had fallen on East Coast Road and Rajiv Gandhi Salai, said Chennai Corporation Commissioner B. Chandramohan in a message on Wednesday morning, and that five of them were removed.
Pumps were running at water stagnation points on OMR and suction lorries were required to clear two water stagnation spots on ECR, the message said.
Officials of the Revenue Department in Kancheepuram district said the damaged caused by the rainfall was restricted to a very small pocket and that adequate remedial measures were being put in place.
Several trees were uprooted, garbage strewn about and walls of homes caved in
