Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Sep 2: As the rainfall continued to be less on Wednesday September 1, the people of the coast could go shopping for the festivals, and celebrate Srikrishna Janmashtami well. While most parts of the coast received rains on Wednesday, Lakkavalli in Shimoga received nine cms of rain, the highest in the state.

The rainfall in places dotting the coast was between two and four cms. A large number of trees were uprooted and houses and cattle sheds of several people were damaged in a hurricane that swept through Kodlady and Mardi villages in Kundapur taluk at the foot of the Western Ghats.  Over 500 areca nut trees, 600 cashew trees, 400 banana trees and dozens of coconut trees were uprooted. The trees that fell across the roads also threw traffic out of gear.

The meteorological department’s predictions valid till Friday morning say that normal rains with very heavy rains at isolated places are likely in the state’s coast.