{"id":394491,"date":"2022-10-12T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=394491"},"modified":"2022-10-12T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:38:11","slug":"andhra-pradesh-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/andhra-pradesh-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh: Flash floods in Anantpur, administration rescues 300 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defying its drought-prone tag, Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Anantpur was hit by flash floods owing to the heavy rainfall that poured down in the district on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 300 flood victims were rescued from their houses, as many low-lying settlements got submerged in the rainwater and the overflowing drains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch the rescue operation here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We Serve With Pride And Care: As many colonies under <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anantapur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Anantapur<\/a> 3rd &amp; 4th Town PS limits were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/flooded?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#flooded<\/a>,City police&amp;Special Party Police rushed to inundated colonies,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rescued?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rescued<\/a> old people,children&amp;women who are stranded in helpless condition with water blockade in their houses.(1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnlmQq5VdC\">pic.twitter.com\/OnlmQq5VdC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andhra Pradesh Police (@APPOLICE100) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APPOLICE100\/status\/1580082527582453760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Large amounts of rain fell in areas like Rudrampeta, Nadimvanka, and Adarsh Nagar, flooding the houses. The floods in district were are caused by overflowing nearby lakes. In comparison to March 2022, Singanamala lake received 60 per cent more rainwater in October 2022. The Chitravathi River is reportedly nearing capacity as well, said the reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/man-playing-shiva-dies\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/man-playing-shiva-dies\/\">UP Man playing lord Shiva during Ramleela collapses and dies, video viral | Watch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Tuesday night, numerous colonies have been without electricity due to overflowing drainage systems that allowed entry of flood water into multiple colonies. Up to 300 individuals were evacuated from their homes by police and fire fighters and were rescued with boats, reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local MLAs Anantha Venkatarami Reddy, Topudurthi Prakash Reddy and MP Gorantla Madhav are constantly keeping a keen eye on the overwhelming situation. Upon their orders, facilities for drinking water and for food have been made at the relief camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), Anantpur, GR Madhusudan has said that the tanks were entirely full prior to the rain but the canals began to overflow following the intense downpour. This resulted in the rural and town areas of Anantapur experiencing flash floods. In rural areas, six colonies were submerged; in urban areas, four colonies and three wards were impacted. The area that is most impacted is Rangaswami colony, RDO Madhusudan added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The District Magsitrate has declared holiday for the schools and examinations of a few colleges have been postponed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sai Praneeh Burah, who famous by the name of Andhra Pradesh weatherman, in his tweet, wrote that in his nine years of blogging experience, he had never witnessed such floods in Anantpur. The tag of drought-prone district will now be removed as it rained in excess here in the past 4 years and this year highest rainfall was recorded here, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Water is overflowing everywhere in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anantapur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Anantapur<\/a>. Requesting everyone to stay safe. \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vviyYxtv0N\">pic.twitter.com\/vviyYxtv0N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andhra Pradesh Weatherman (@APWeatherman96) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APWeatherman96\/status\/1580088027220967424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/bharat-jodo-yatra-rahul-gandhi-push-ups\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/bharat-jodo-yatra-rahul-gandhi-push-ups\/\">Bharat Jodo Yatra: Little boy challenges Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders for push-ups | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/mulayam-singh-yadav-man-jumps-river\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/mulayam-singh-yadav-man-jumps-river\/\">UP: Saddened by Mulayam Singh Yadav\u2019s demise, man jumps into river in Kanpur, dies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floods in district were are caused by overflowing nearby lakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":394494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Andhra Pradesh: Flash floods in Anantpur, administration rescues 300 people\n#floods #Andhra #heavyrains \n#Rescue ","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[143351,125714],"tags":[2136,140432,144472,130606],"yst_prominent_words":[60929,58618,26339,7130,60014,4045,68980,56660,52210,28509,20828,6157,33206,3970,19040,42910],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/10\/12151123\/flash-flood.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394491"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=394491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=394491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->