Heavy shower paralyses life, in Ctg

After months of dry weather, the district and its adjoining areas experienced record rains since midnight last night as the monsoon set in.
Torrential rains reached an extreme form up to this afternoon paralysing civic life and business activities badly. City residents were almost forced to stay inside the houses.
Meteorology Department said they have recorded 54.2 mm rainfall during the last 24 hours ending 12 noon yesterday. Activities at offices, businesses and schools witnessed a slow start in the morning as most parts of the city went into knee to waist deep water.
Vast low-lying, residential areas, commercial establishments, huge educational institutions were inundated with the intermittent heavy downpour.
Movements of mechanized vehicles in most of the city streets were hampered and a good number of vehicles remained stuck up in the knee-deep water as rain water submerged those thoroughfares for hours that mounted the sufferings of city-dwellers manifolds.
Local met office also forecast that Chittagong and its adjacent regions may experience more downpours in the next 24 hours.
Fire Service, Chittagong Metropolitan and district police control room sources said they had not received any information of rain related incidents including hill or mud collapse. Officials of the Chittagong Port Authority said overall operational activities of the country’s prime seaport remained uninterrupted but unloading of bulk cargoes from vessels and their delivery from sheds were hampered during heavy shower.
Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport’s traffic control room sources said heavy shower did not affect its scheduled flight operation excepting delay in arrival and departure of some flights.
Rickshaw pullers and drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws were seen demanding excess fare from the commuters taking advantages of the bad weather and thin traffic.
Water logging turned worst in low-laying areas of the city where clogged rainwater entered inside a large numbers of residences and business establishments in Muradpur, Bahadderhat, Chawkbazar, Bakalia, Halishahar, Chaktai, Patarghata , Agrabad and Sholakbahar, Badurtola, and Sholoshahar.