IndiGo Flights Cancelled: As many as 550 IndiGo flights have been cancelled and almost 1000 have been impacted throughout the nation since yesterday after Chennai airport shut down operations owing to heavy rains triggered as a consequence of cyclone Michaung. But now, Air Traffic Management (ATM) is prioritising departures to clear the backlog as Chennai Airport resumed its operations from 9 AM immediately.
There are at present 21 plane on the bottom and round 1500 passengers within the terminals. The F&B Concessionaire has ensured that satisfactory meals is out there in any respect retailers. Besides flights, suburban practice providers have been additionally impacted as waterlogging was reported in lots of areas.
Cyclone Michaung: Here’s your 10-point cheatsheet
- 8 folks have misplaced their lives whereas a number of roads and subways are closed as a consequence of waterlogging.
- Traffic has been closed on Manjambakkam to Vadaperumbakkam Road as a result of launch of water from the Puzhal Lake
- Many households together with pregnant girls, kids, and senior residents have been rescued from totally different areas who have been caught as a consequence of wreak havoc of Cyclone Michaung.
- Around 17 subways together with the Ganesapuram Subway, Gengureddy Subway, Sembium (Perambur), Villivakkam and Duraisamy Subway are closed as a consequence of water logging.
- Fallen timber have been eliminated at 58 locations within the GCP restrict.
- Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin on Tuesday morning inspected the Cyclone-affected areas and rain reduction camp arrange in Kannapar Thital, Chennai.
- There are 162 reduction centres wherein 43 are operated accommodating 2477 Chennai residents. There are 20 kitchens operational offering meals to those reduction centres.
- The state authorities has requested the authorities in regards to the availability of ready-made objects together with rice-dals-vegetables and their high quality to rearrange meals for these staying within the reduction camps.
- 5000 staff from different districts are moved to Chennai for the mitigation works.
- The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned “Severe Cyclonic Storm “MICHAUNG” over Westcentral Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu coasts moved northwards with a speed of 07 kmph during past 6 hours and lay centred at 0530 hours IST of today, the 5th December 2023 over Westcentral Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh coast near Latitude14.9°N and Longitude 80.2°E, about 20 km east of Kavali, 50 km north-northeast of Nellore, 200 km north of Chennai, 110 km south-southwest of Bapatla and 170km south-southwest of Machilipatnam.”
