Mangalore: Moderate Rain Disturbs Normal Life of City Folks
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (MM/RD)
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Mangalore, Mar 20: It was a heavy shower coupled with thunder and lightning, thus bringing all activities into a standstill for some time in the evening.
Mangalore got a pleasant rain between 5 pm and 6 pm, while the surrounding areas like Surathkal, Panambur, Bajpe, BR Road, Ullal and the like too received an even rain. Belthangady, Puttur, Sullia, Dharmasthala and Moodabidre were also not spared.
Several trees and electric poles in Konaje, Derlakatte and Ammembala area fell owing to the heavy rains. Though the broken branches of the trees did perturb the movement of the vehicles on the roads, the residents of the area were seen clearing the roads instantaneously in the rains to make way for the vehicles.
Vehicular traffic was disrupted in BC Road. As the fly-over construction works are going on near the main bus stand, the soil-mixed drain floods spread everywhere, pushing pedestrians and passengers in a fix. Water level has slightly gone up in Nethravathi too. A tree fell down on the government hospital in Puttur.
Fortunately, nobody have been affected. Telephone and power supply has been disrupted in many places of the twin districts.
‘Mattu gulla,’ a famous vegetable crop of Udupi is in crisis as the crop grown in about 30 acres stretch have rotten because of the rains lashing the region for the past few days.
Farmers, on the one hand, are happy that their plantations need not be irrigated for another week, and on the other they are worried as how to dry up yields like areca.
Meanwhile, the rains also hampered the Maundy Thursday activities in many churches as a number of churches had planned to offer the holy mass in the open air.
The rains forced almost all the churches to cancel the open air mass much to the inconvenience of the devotees.
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