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N Sathiya Moorthy in Chennai
Chennai witnessed a heavy downpour on Friday morning resulting in flooding of roads, leaving office-goers and school children stranded.
With the weatherman predicting more rains for the next two days, it may be a wet Diwali for the city.
The cable-laying operations of the telephone department worsened the water logging in many low-lying areas, forcing people to wade through knee-deep water.
The rains, which have been high across other parts of the state too, affected train traffic, with the suburban services becoming the first casualty.
But the heavy downpour has shored up the drinking water storage in Chennai for another year.
Elsewhere in the state, the all-important and politically sensitive Mettur reservoir's storage level shot up by five feet in a day, to 51 feet.
Mayiladuthurai in the Cauvery delta received an exceptionally high 31 centimetres of rain in 24 hours, so did other areas in the Thanjavur region.
Down south, Palayamkottai recorded 24 centimetres of rain.
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