In 2016, nepals army drained a lake near mount everest after rapid glacial melting threatened to cause a catastrophic flood downstream. Chennai floods, 2015 a satellite and field based assessment study 7. This is a wakeup call to insurers and reinsurers to better understand cumulative risk exposures, and develop an underwriting strategy for flood risks. Dec 04, 2015 floodwaters recede as chennai rain eases.
Arumugam 8939832831, periyasamy 8939832834, support. How chennai took on cyclone vardah india news,the indian. Chennai, the biggest industrial and commercial center in south india, was officially declared a disaster area on. As explained in q2 on this blogpost, the mail issue was a result of a software bug that had unusually severe service consequences, even. Weeks of heavy rain and flooding have knocked out power, suspended public transportation and left people stranded in chennai, india. Chennai flood behind dlf and babuji ashram manapakkam. In a scathing report the comptroller and auditor general of india cag held the state. There are a lot of 2d flood software but these very costly. Pdf hydraulic flood modelling using mike urban software. Urban flood, flood management, floo d risk, chennai flood.
Service and support impacted by the chennai flood disaster. Modelling river floods a growing necessity in india as a result of high intensity rainfall, india has seen an increasing number of river and coastal floods due to river overflows, dam and dike breaches and ocean storm surges. The brunt of the damage was borne by the slums that lay on the banks of the coovum. Revise landscapes for a pictureperfect effect drown foreground objects in photoshop with a little editing rapid reflections better than can be painted by hand. And while each brings unique anguish and relief requirements, anticipating and being prepared are ways ibm puts its purpose and values into practice. They affected the coromandel coast region of the south indian states of tamil nadu and andhra pradesh. Chennai floods 2015a geographic analysis arcgis for developers. Social media analytics were used to help provide emergency responses to the chennai, india floods in november 2015. Thankfully i didnt travel to office that morning as it had already started f.
Modelling river floods a growing necessity in india. Ibm in india, ibm teams respond in flooding disaster. Local officials described the flooding in chennai, a coastal city, capital and metro area with a population of over 8 million people, as the worst in a century. Unmindful of the lofty intellectuals at work in the glass and steel buildings of the software parks. Flooding inundates munroe island, in kerala, india. The flood was caused due to heavy rainfall generated by the. Dec 05, 2015 rains eased in the flood hit city of chennai in southern india on friday, raising hopes that rescue efforts could pick up, after the death of 18 patients at a private hospital added to the. A strong disaster response team needs to be set up at a local level. Urban flood, flood management, flood risk, chennai flood. The city of chennai alone experienced five major floods between 1943 and. Several weeks of exceptionally heavy rain have brought major flooding to the state of tamil nadu in india and devastation to its capital of. Chennai floods 2015a geographic analysis arcgis for. Google spreadsheet comes to citys rescue it is a technologyenabled attempt to crowdsource information about relief on internet. Hydraulic flood modelling using mike urban software.
Vulnerable and inundated areas flood relief camps including closed affected areas reset aminjikarai velachery mudichur old mahabalipuram road. We believe that it is possible to create a resilient, safe chennai. The thames barrier is a unique flood control structure on the river thames at woolwich reach in east london. The paper discusses causative factors responsible for flood risks in chennai, the immediate need for proper flood risk reduction and management strategies. Lying on the bay of bengal coast, chennai is prone to violent storms and thundershowers during the northeast monsoon septembernovember. Flood control india environment portal news, reports. Know all about the tragic saga of tamil nadu devastation in numbers. Rain shows no sign of letting up in this deluged city and in several coastal parts of tamil nadu. We believe that chennai s flood challenges can be managed.
Most of these buildings are around 200 years old and older. The 2005 december chennai stampede incident happened on 18 december 2005 in a school. Essay on chennai flash floods india disaster management. Coastal cities, namely chennai, mumbai, mangalore, who. Chennai flood 2015, the disaster, the challenges and the solutions. Direct relief is working to support local health centers with medical supplies and financial assistance in the floods wake. Its been a little more than two months since heavy rains flooded the southern indian city of chennai madras. Chennai floods are not a natural disastertheyve been created by. A software prepared after the last flood with a checklist of emergency measures helped alert all stakeholders. This is an initiation to go further and make chennai a flood proof city in the future. A comprehensive system allows a call centre agent in chennai to schedule a meeting with a business advisor in liverpool. Its a sad reality that disasters happen with distressing frequency. Report of the comptroller and auditor general of india on performance audit of flood management and response in chennai and its suburban areas.
This informal and an almost chance discussion formed the genesis of the rapid assessment of chennai floods, presented in this report. Other floodprone cities are taking stock, and time will tell if the plans. You can mobilize your friends and family to donate to support chennai flood relief by using globalgivings free peertopeer fundraising tool. The 2015 south india floods resulted from heavy rainfall generated by the annual northeast monsoon in novemberdecember 2015. Last year, after an unusually weak monsoon, water nearly ran out in chennai, one of indias biggest cities. There are many other reasons for it, and one of it turns to be our peoples ignorance and negligence towards the environmental awareness. Nss contains all of the nff functionality and equations as. Unless microlevel flood relief committees were formed in flood affected areas, relief workers may not be able to move freely to distribute material to people in their hour of crisis. Share the chennai flood relief fund on social media to spread the word about the millions of refugees that need support start a fundraiser to support relief. Many people were rendered homeless by flooding during november and december. Other floodprone cities are taking stock, and time will tell if the plans implemented will divert another disaster of such magnitude. In india, chennai city has serious problems related to urban flooding find, read and. In october 1943, there were continuous rains lasting over six days.
Chennai is the biggest industrial and commercial center in southern india. In fact, the mail servers and storage systems are not located in chennai. Particulars of collation pages 34 figures 34 tables references 3 8. Call centre scheduling simplified with the right system. Chennai flood 2015, the disaster, the challenges and the.
Advantages of online call centre scheduling software. We provide a cost effective endtoend business solution, thereby improving efficiency, service quality, and a substantial business advantage among your competitors. But water offers no exemption to the elite industry. We believe that chennais flood challenges can be managed. The deluge followed a month of persistent monsoon rains that were already well above normal for the indian state of tamil nadu. Chennai, state capital of tamil nadu lies in the eastern coast of south india where three watercourses meanders through it namely, cooum river, adyar river and buckingham canal. Dec 08, 2015 some observations and conclusions are made. Dec 02, 2015 weeks of heavy rain and flooding have knocked out power, suspended public transportation and left people stranded in chennai, india. Since 2000, ibm and ibm volunteers have helped in over 50 disaster situations, across 33 countries. This is an initiation to go further and make chennai a floodproof city in the future. Dec 11, 2015 chennai flood behind dlf and babuji ashram manapakkam media directory. Chennai is home to the second largest collection of heritage buildings in the country, after kolkata.
Right now, chennaiindias fourthlargest city with a metro area the size of chicagois paralyzed. Floods chennai, india flooding inundates munroe island, in kerala, india. Chennai floods devastate indias fourthlargest city. The recent issue with zoho mail is not a result of our systems being impacted by the chennai flood disaster. Rajinikanth, vijay, ajith and other south celebs donate generously. Order of the supreme court of india regarding problem of flood in the ghaggar basin, 23092019. The 2015 south india floods resulted from heavy rainfall generated by the annual northeast. Service and support impacted by the chennai flood disaster zoho blog. I would like to donate 25 lakh to chennai flood relief. How chennai took on cyclone vardah the indian express spoke to top officials, ministers and politicians from the ruling aiadmk to discuss the aftermath of the two cyclones and what happened in between. Latest chennai floods news, photos, blogposts, videos and wallpapers. Freedom software solutions has positioned itself as a specialized erp solution provider for manufacturing businesses in india.
Rains eased in the floodhit city of chennai in southern india on friday, raising hopes that rescue efforts could pick up, after the death of 18 patients at a private hospital added to the. Moderate to heavy monsoon rains are likely to continue across chennai as well as coastal tamil nadu due to the low pressure area which lies over the southwest bay of bengal off tamil nadu and sri lanka coast. Affiliation of authors dmsd, dmsg, national remote sensing centre 10. Citizens report on the 2015 floods in chennai a documentation of urban flood management and disaster preparedness for lessons for urban governance this is a collaborative report undertaken by cag as part of the wfc initiative. The relief program improves the living conditions of 1575 flood affected house holds in chennai and coastal. Zoho has multiple, redundant data centers across multiple continents. Visit this page often to keep up with the available software resources provided by fema. Some of them are chennai central, chennai egmore, ripon building, bharat insurance building, and so forth. You could try anuga free, open source hydrodynamic modelling code.
Weeks of heavy rain and flooding have knocked out power. Being open taking a genuinely open and collaborative. Feb 26, 2016 its been a little more than two months since heavy rains flooded the southern indian city of chennai madras. The national flood frequency nff has been replaced with the national streamflow statistics nss program. We can help avoid water borne diseases gastro enteritis, cholera,typhoid,leptospirosis.
With estimates of damages and losses ranging from nearly. Freedom software solutions online support system to improve our software support to the customer with customer login and tracking their ticket status. A massive flood was reported in 2015 that affected the coromandel coast region of the tamil nadu and andhra pradesh, and the union territory of puducherry, with tamil nadu and the city of chennai. Over 5,207 roads are flooded according to a crowd sourced map, 23 trains had been cancelled, and voice lines and atms are down throughout the area. A wakeup call for insurers chennai floods, india gen re. In wake of the incessant rains in south india and the resultant flooding organizations had to put their business continuity plans bcp into action. Moderate lightning strikes are also possible along the tamil nadu coast including chennai.
In december, 2015, ibm volunteers in india answered the call again. Chennai, with historically rich records dating from the british era, houses 2,467 heritage buildings within its metropolitan area, the highest within any metropolitan area limit in india. Chennai floods 2015a geographic analysis on december 12, 2015, the indian city of chennai received more rainfall in 24 hours than it had seen on any day since 1901. It had started raining slightly on the previous evening. Ndrf rescued 11,291 flood victims and shifted them to safe shelters. We want to gather civil engineers and other likeminded people to be a part of them team and find the best solutions. This flood management plan aims to achieve this by. It is 520 meters wide and protects london against storm surges and. Every city needs to be prepared for such incidents. This is a crowdsourced effort to map inundated roads in chennai. Report a flooded street by zooming into the map and clicking it. The document is also sounding board for anyone with an net connection. Chennai floods, 2015 a satellite and field based assessment.
The december floods had a major impact on the areas industrial. Authors project team c m bhatt and ashish mishra 9. Revenue secretary satya gopal was the nodal officer of this system and the software was designed in such a way that it sent alerts of lapses, too, said a senior. The coovum and the adyar rivers overflowed inundating the surrounding residential areas. Chennai flood behind dlf and babuji ashram manapakkam media directory.
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