Bengaluru:
Being rescued on a tractor-trolley, residents of an upscale neighbourhood in Bengaluru look frightened as they go by some Lexus and BMW sedans, Vary Rover SUVs, and a Bentley crossover amongst different ultra-expensive vehicles which are half-submerged — this video exhibits how flooding in India’s IT hub hasn’t spared many.
Whereas costs of the vehicles vary from Rs 65 lakh to Rs 2.5 crore, the flats right here — Divyasree 77 East in Yemlur — price Rs 7–10 crore.
Right here is one other one. #Bangalorepic.twitter.com/BoQBV7jt7Z
— Rohit Varma (@rohitvaarma) September 5, 2022
There are some comparatively cheaper fashions — equivalent to an older model of the Honda Civic and the now-discontinued Volkswagen Polo — seen too. No total injury estimate is on the market as but.
This video, shared by communications skilled Rohit Varma amongst a number of others, is certainly one of many going viral. He shared a photograph of the within of a house too.
Any person’s house pic.twitter.com/UGTcnk8njk
— Rohit Varma (@rohitvaarma) September 5, 2022
It introduced again recollections, and fears, of what occurred in Chennai in 2015, when 1000’s of vehicles and two-wheelers have been broken. Costly vehicles, together with Audis and Jaguars, have been later bought for a lot under market value as these have been both past restore or would price big sums to be road-ready once more.
Often, insurance coverage doesn’t cowl floods and different such “pure disasters”, although that may be completed by paying further premium.
In different stark visuals earlier at this time, ed-tech platform Unacademy’s CEO Gaurav Munjal shared a video of his household and pet canine being evacuated on a tractor after his residential society was flooded.
Household and my Pet Albus has been evacuated on a Tractor from our society that is now submerged. Issues are unhealthy. Please take care. DM me when you want any assist, I am going to attempt my finest to assist. pic.twitter.com/MYnGgyvfx0
— Gaurav Munjal (@gauravmunjal) September 6, 2022
On the federal government entrance, in the meantime, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai blamed the earlier Congress governments and “unprecedented” rains for the flooding within the state capital. He mentioned that, regardless of all odds, his authorities has taken it up as a problem to revive the rain-battered metropolis, and guarantee that such issues do not recur.
For the final couple of days, a number of areas of Bengaluru stay beneath water as lakes have overflowed.
“For the final 90 years such rain has not been recorded. All of the tanks are full and are overflowing, a few of them have breached, and there have been steady rains,” Mr Bommai mentioned.