Mohali battles troubled waters

Tribune News Service

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Mohali, August 11

Crane service was the biggest beneficiary of the Sunday afternoon downpour as roads turned into canals and road users faced a harrowing time till evening.

Dera Bassi, Zirakpur, Mohali, Kharar and Nayagaon roads were flooded as rainwater mixed with overflowing sewage. A two-room old house caved in at Malakpur village of Dera Bassi with all the goods damaged.

Rainwater entered the houses of several residents in Phase 11 this afternoon following which they blocked the Phase 11 to IISER road for two hours.

Local BJP leader and resident Sanjeev Joshi said it had been years but officials of the administration had not resolved the issue despite repeated reminders.

In Zirakpur, VIP Road, Patiala chowk and the Pabhat area remained submerged in one-foot rainwater for almost three hours. Vehicles crawled on the national highway for hours even as inner roads remained flooded with rainwater.

Close to 50 houses in low-lying areas of Sector 71 were inundated and their furniture, household items damaged in the rainwater.

At Om Enclave in Kharar, several cars and two-wheelers were damaged as rainwater from five villages nearby reached the society. A tractor had to be brought in to bail out the residents. An entrepreneurial resident floated a kids’ pool to wade through the flooded streets. The main entrance of Nirvana Green, a housing society in Kharar, was inundated causing problems to the residents of the society.

Two persons in a jeep got stuck on the Togan-New Chandigarh road as their vehicle broke down in a raging rivulet. Village residents used a rope to take them out of the vehicle.

In Baltana, the railing and edges of a bridge were damaged as the Sukhna choe was in full fury.

Traffic had to be diverted and the area barricaded.