Although the intensity of rainfall has not been much in the last two days, the aftermath of the two heavy showers on Sunday and Monday continued to trouble the residents of the IT corridor even on Wednesday. Inundated roads and apartment basements, JCBs clearing encroachments and cleaning up lakes, and tractors carrying people were a common sight around the zone. However, the situation was getting slightly better at many gated communities due to the efforts of the fire and emergency personnel.
On Borewell road in Whitefield, around eight apartments were struggling with a plethora of issues. At SS Felecity, residents, including the elderly, used ladders to get down from the balcony of their houses to the main gate, along with their luggage, to temporarily shift to a hotel or relatives’ place. Rafts were being used to navigate through the flooded basement and residents said that the electricity had been out for three days. Similar was the situation at other apartments too.
As the compound wall of one of the apartments had collapsed, the residential building in which Mutthurayappa and his wife Sujatha reside had been flooded and the access to their home almost cut off. “All the IT professionals in apartments have moved to hotels to stay safe, but what should people like us who cannot afford it do? We have called the Bescom and BBMP too many times in the last three days, and yet they have not paid any heed to our problems. We have been here for far too long than apartment residents and yet our problems get neglected,” the couple bemoaned.
