By Praveen Paramasivam and Rishika Sadam

CHENNAI/HYDERABAD, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Rescuers used boats to achieve folks stranded of their properties amid widespread flooding within the India’s Chennai on Wednesday after cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern coast, bringing in heavy rain and winds that uprooted bushes and broken roads.

An estimated 13 folks, most of them within the manufacturing hub of Tamil Nadu, have died within the flooding that was triggered by the torrential rains that preceded the cyclone, which made landfall in Andhra Pradesh state on Tuesday afternoon.

Rescuers used inflatable rafts and ropes to pluck folks out of their properties in Chennai, a metropolis of greater than 6 million folks and a significant vehicle and expertise manufacturing hub.

Local media confirmed photos of rescue staff wading by waist-deep water and of submerged autos. Air power helicopters additionally dropped meals rations to folks stranded in flooded properties.

“There are pockets of low lying areas,” stated Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner Dr. J. Radhakrishnan. “We to hope clear it soon.”

Taiwan’s Foxconn and Pegatron had halted Apple iPhone manufacturing at their services close to Chennai because of the rains on Monday, sources instructed Reuters. Foxconn resumed operations on Tuesday.

In Andhra Pradesh, which bore the brunt of the cyclone, the injury was comparatively contained, with roads broken and bushes uprooted as huge waves crashed into the coast.

This week’s floods in Chennai introduced again recollections of the in depth injury brought on by floods eight years in the past which killed round 290 folks.

Some residents questioned the flexibility of town’s infrastructure to deal with excessive climate. State Chief Minister M Ok Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi searching for 50.6 billion rupees ($607.01 million) for the injury.

Raj Bhagat P, a civil engineer and geo-analytics professional stated higher stormwater drainage programs within the metropolis wouldn’t have been capable of stop the flooding.

“This solution would have helped a lot in moderate and heavy rainfall, but not in very heavy and extremely heavy rains,” he stated.

($1 = 83.3600 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Praveen Paramasivam in Chennai, Rishika Sadam in Hyderabad and Jatindra Dash in Bhubaneswar, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; enhancing by Miral Fahmy)