A house collapsed at Ghousia Nagar and several low-lying areas across the city were flooded on Saturday as pre-monsoon rains continued to lash the region, disrupting life.
The house that collapsed is in ward no. 59.“Fortunately, there were no casualties as nobody was in the locked house,” a Mysore City Corporation (MCC) official said.
The flooding of the low-lying areas caused great hardship to the residents. Water flooded the slum behind MCC’s Zone 6 office, near the South Western Railway offices. Rainwater also entered houses in the Bada Makan area, next to Imperial Function Hall, officials said.
There were traffic snarls near the Karnataka Exhibition Authority and the Mysuru palace owing to flooding of the Bengaluru-Nilgiri road after Hardinge Circle. Owing to the three-hour incessant rain several drains overflowed.
Two trees were uprooted in the city: while one collapsed on Vinaya Marga in Siddhartha Layout, another came crashing down at Jayalakshmipuram.
Power supply was disrupted in many areas on Saturday. “We received complaints from N.R. Mohalla, Bannimantap, Chamundipuram, J.P. Nagar, Vidyaranyapuram, Yadavagiri, and Tilak Nagar,” said an official of Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC).
Unlike Friday when power cables snapped owing to tree-fall, Saturday’s power outage was caused mostly because of “faults and trips” arising out of rain, the CESC official said.
“Mysuru city received more than 50 mm rainfall on Friday. Saturday’s will, however, be recorded only on Sunday morning,” said C. Govindaraju, Superintendent, University of Agricultural Sciences’ Organic Farm Research Station, Naganahalli, where Indian Meteorological Department has a weather monitoring station.
