Incessant rains threatens my city with flood.
@aninditasen (17739)
Raurkela, India
July 14, 2025 9:28am CST
It raining since almost 20 days in my city. Heavy rain today from 4 a.m in the morning inundation many parts of the city. The city railway station parking space is flooded with rain water. The cause is bad drainage system that are neither cleaned regularly nor constructed to drain out rain water. Illegal encroachment is another reason. Encroachment should be removed from where rain water flows. Some residents have build houses over the drain this is just causing severe problems when it rains heavily. Thank God the top officials of municipality have taken note of it and are working to clean drains and drain out rain water.
A picture of water logged Rourkela railway station, my city.
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@rakski (149295)
• Philippines
16 Jul
@aninditasen I hope they will be a ble to clean those drainage so it will not flood there
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
15 Jul
Some drains were cleaned yesterday. I don't know what they are doing today.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
16 Jul
@rakski The city is dry today. However on Monday things were in a dangerous state.
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@abhi_bangal (7684)
• Ahmednagar, India
29 Jul
I think it's more than 2 weeks now since these rains. They might have subsided by now. Isn't it?
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@abhi_bangal (7684)
• Ahmednagar, India
4 Aug
@aninditasen Yes. After incessant rains, mostly it takes time before the weather clears. You can call the cloudy and drizzling weather as a hangover.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
4 Aug
@abhi_bangal Now most of the time it's dry and rains sometimes.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
29 Jul
Flood water had subsided but it cloudy and drizzling sometimes.
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@garymarsh6 (23828)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug
Sorry to read this. With goverment cut backs the same happens here when rivers rise they have not cleared the river silt so it floods on the flood plains where they have permitted people to build homes. I hope they clear the sewers fast.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
5 Aug
In India neither it's actually the drains that are not cleaned timely and properly. Desilting the rivers is regular as lot of construction work keeps going on in India. Moreover the municipality rarely makes arrangements for rain water to flow into the river.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
14 Jul
Rain is acceptable unless it doesn't cause water logging and flood. People have been marooned.
@snowy22315 (198254)
• United States
22 Jul
@aninditasen Sadly, seems like the story in alot of places.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
23 Jul
@snowy22315 Yes, and the district administration and government just sleep on the files and don't take any positive post.
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@Shivram59 (45883)
• India
11 Aug
We have not rain for last ten days. Before that we had a heavy downpour, but after that we have had drizzling only, that too lasts barely for five or six minutes. Now the level of humidity is going up.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
12 Aug
Rain has reduced to drizzle and it's hot in my city.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
17 Aug
@Shivram59 Here it's hot during the day and cool at night.
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@Shivram59 (45883)
• India
12 Aug
@aninditasen Here the situation is exactly the same. The level of humidity is going up.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
28 Jul
There's lot to be done as it rained heavily two days back and some areas got flooded once again.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
27 Jul
It's raining once again in my city and some areas have been flooded. The NDRF has started its rescue operation.
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@Marilynda1225 (86739)
• United States
14 Jul
Its's good that your city officials are taking action and not just ignoring the problem. We've had very heavy rains in different parts of the US and flooding has been excessive.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
15 Jul
The officials had to or else the entire city would have been inundated with rain and drain water.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
15 Jul
The bikes handle can be seen. Thank God the municiality has brought it under control by cleaning the clogged drain. Today we don't have much rain.
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@aninditasen (17739)
• Raurkela, India
31 Jul
It not raining heavily now but drizzling sometimes.
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