00:00 Visuals from Chennai show cars floating as roads get inundated with water as Michau Cyclone
00:17 gears up to hit northern Tamil Nadu on Monday for noon.
00:21 Social media users have shared visuals from the waterlogged streets of the state as well
00:24 as the airport.
00:25 Merciless rains in a span of 12 hours have inundated the residential areas.
00:30 Some other videos show heavy winds blowing while some show vast swathes of land underwater.
00:35 Cyclone Michau, which is predicted to make landfall in southern Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday,
00:39 has hit northern Tamil Nadu.
00:41 Due to this, the Tamil Nadu government has announced a public holiday on December 4 and
00:46 urged private companies to consider a work-from-home option for its employees.
00:50 As many as 118 trains have been cancelled due to the inclement weather.
00:55 The state government has deployed disaster response force personnel and made arrangements
00:58 with additional inventory such as 3 lakh electricity poles, machinery such as cranes and requisite
01:04 vehicles.
01:06 Many people in the vulnerable areas of the state have been reallocated to relief camps.
01:10 The Tamil Nadu government has housed 685 people from vulnerable areas in 11 relief camps.
01:16 In Chennai alone, 162 relief centres have been readied.
01:21 Control rooms have been set up and 14 state disaster response teams comprising 350 personnel
01:26 and 9 national disaster response force teams of 225 personnel have been stationed in coastal
01:30 regions.
01:32 The government has also released the following helpline numbers.
01:41 Cyclone Michau is expected to move northwards from Haryan and cross south Andhra Pradesh
01:46 coast between Nellore and Machilipatnam tomorrow.
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