As many as two individuals have been killed in rain-related incidents in Chennai since Monday. A forty five-year-old, Shanthi, from Pulianthope in Chennai died on Tuesday morning after a concrete slab collapsed on her and a 52-year-old auto driver, Devendhiran, received electrocuted to loss of life close to Vyasarpadi. Water entered homes in low-lying areas in some components of north Chennai. Significantly, for the primary time in three many years, Nungambakkam, a core metropolis space, recorded 8 cm in a single day and suburban Red Hills 13 cm, adopted by 12 cm in Perambur, additionally within the metropolis.

According to S Balachandran, who heads Chennai’s Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), heavy to very heavy rainfall is more likely to happen in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Ranipet, Tirupattur, Tiruvannamalai over the following few hours. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu chief minister M Okay Stalin on Tuesday chaired a gathering by way of video convention with all of the district collectors and different officers to take inventory of the preventive measures which have been carried out to mitigate flooding.