MANGALURU/ UDUPI: Like in the past three days, rainfall was sporadic, but heavy to moderate, all along the coast on Sunday, that affected normal life, and the IMD has extended the red alert till Wednesday.
The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district administrations declared a holiday on Monday, for all anganwadi centres and primary and high schools, including all private, aided and government ones. PU colleges, degree colleges and professional colleges will remain open
Subrahmanya taluk, especially Kukke Subrahmanya area, received heavy rain. The bathing ghat at Kukke remained submerged for the fifth day on Sunday. Traffic was affected as the submersible Halla bridge on the Subrahmanya Kadaba state highway got submerged on Saturday night. In Mangaluru taluk, the national highway is ridden with potholes, from Panambur till BC Road, especially the Kulur old bridge, which is creating traffic gridlocks every day.
A house in Panjikallu was partially damaged, after a hillock caved in near the house. There was no report of injury to inmates of the house. This is the same area where three labourers hailing from Kerala died, after a hillock caved in on the tiled house they were staying in, a few days back.
The Netravati River in Bantwal breached the danger level of 8.5m. The low-lying areas of Panemangalore, Guddeyangady, Aladka, Bogodi, Nandavara, Goodinabali, Bantwal, Kelaginapete, Baddakatte, Navoor, Maindala, Sarapady and Ajilamogaru were inundated. Many residents have been asked to move to safer places on Saturday itself. The Netravati River at Uppinangady was at a level of 29.7m, with the danger level being 31.5m. The Gundya River was at a level of 4.9m with the danger level being 5m.
In Udupi, the loss due to rain was estimated at about Rs 6.5 lakh, on Saturday and Sunday. This includes partial damage to five houses in Brahmavar (Rs 85000); three houses in Udupi (Rs 2 lakh); two houses in Karkala (Rs 75000); five houses and a cow shed in Byndoor (Rs 1.7 lakh); two houses and a cow shed in Kundapur (Rs 1.3 lakh) and damage caused to three classrooms of the Ammanavara Toppu, Uppunda village, Byndoor, for which the loss was estimated at Rs 2.5 lakh.
A bulletin issued by IMD at 1 pm on Sunday, stated that extremely heavy rain fell in Subramanya in Dakshina Kannada district, at 210mm. Very heavy rain fell in Mulki in Dakshina Kannada district at 200mm; Castle Rock, Uttara Kannada district-190mm; Moodbidri, Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada, received 180mm rain each; Dharmasthala received 170mm rain; Mani received 160mm; Karkala and Sullia received 130mm rain each; Mangaluru Airport and Puttur received 120mm rain each. Kollur and Panambur received 110mm each; Siddapur in Uttara Kannada district and Siddapura inUdupi district and Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district received 100mm rain each.
All taluks in Dakshina Kannada received excess rainfall by 100% to 200%, than the average rainfall recorded for the day. Dakshina Kannada district received an average rainfall of 143mm, Udupi received 110mm and Uttara Kannada district received 50mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours.
In the last 24 hours, six taluks in Dakshina Kannada received more than 80mm of rainfall. They are, Belthangady (88mm), Sullia (80mm), Moodbidri (90mm), Kadaba (102mm), Puttur (80mm), Bantwal (83mm) and Mangaluru taluk received 64mm of rainfall. In Udupi, six taluks got rainfall in excess of 100mm. They are, Karkala, Udupi, Byndoor, Brahmavar, Hebri and Kaup. Kundapur and Brahamvar received more than 79mm of rainfall.
