Rains wreak havoc in Andhra Pradesh, toll rises to 18:-
Incessant rains that have been devastating the state since the last four days killed seven people on Friday, taking the death toll to 18. The rains also destroyed crops on lakhs of hectares. Two people have been reported missing.
The fury of the torrential rain was felt in almost every district of the state. The rains breached tanks and submerged roads. Thousands of homes were marooned and many of them have collapsed. Many rivers have been overflowing and transportation has been badly hit.
The river Krishna is in spate and water had to be released from both Nagarjunasagar and Prakasam barrage. Nagarjunasagar has received 1.35 lakh cusecs of water and 90,000 cusecs were let out. Some 1.18 lakh cusecs was released from the Prakasam barrage by operating 70 gates. The inflow into Srisailam is at present 20,000 cusecs and will increase by Saturday.
According to the weather forecast, heavy to very heavy rain is likely at a few places and extremely heavy rain at isolated pla-ces in all the nine coastal districts and entire Telan-gana in the next 48 hours.
The last four days’ rains have been equal to about a third of what the state received during the entire three-month-long Southwest Monsoon.
According to meteorologists, the downpours have been even worse than that of Cyclone Nilam during November last year.
Further, the rains of the last four days (20.8 cm) are equal to what the state normally gets in the three-month post monsoon period of October to December.
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