When Penna brought misery
The Hindu
Thousands of people in Nellore district have lost all their belongings as floodwater inundated their homes
Sd. Rasheed, a resident of Bhagat Singh Colony, his wife and two children were having dinner as usual on the fateful Saturday (November 20) when flood waters started entering his house all of a sudden. They ran out of the house to safety as rainwater engulfed his house in no time in the wake of a record discharge of 5.50 lakh cusecs into the Penna river downstream from the Somasila reservoir.
When Mr. Rasheed and his family members returned home from the relief camp after floods receded they were shocked to find household articles and electrical appliances unfit for use. “Now I am clueless on running the family with floodwater taking away everything I had in my home,” he laments. About one lakh people in the district, including more than 23,000 living in the low-lying areas like Venkateswarapuram, Janardhan Reddy Colony and Jayalalitha Nagar in Nellore city, had a harrowing experience in the wake of record inflows into the Somasila reservoir.
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