Heavy rains continued to lash Hyderabad city and many other districts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for the third consecutive day disrupting the normal life.
The continuous heavy rains since Monday have wreaked havoc in the city leaving many areas submerged, causing extensive damage to the roads and disrupting the power supply in many areas.
While roads and junctions turned into pools of water at some places trees also fell down adding to the Snarls of traffic in many areas including Begumpet, lakdi Ka Pul and Secunderabad.
Such was the fury of the rains that the Hussain Sagar lake had filled to the capacity and authorities were forced to open the flood gates of the tank. The officials sounded an alert in the lower areas. The lake was receiving 860 cusecs of water and outflow was 2,100 cusecs, officials said.
It was first time that the lake was filled so early in the season.
The rains also caused extensive damages in other districts and three people were electrocuted in Khammam district.
Many rivulets were in spate in the two States. Munneru river was in spate in Mahabubabad and Khammam. Food gates of Talliperu project in Bhadradari were also opened.
River Godavari was rising in Bhadrachalam due to the heavy inflows.
With the Met office issuing a warning of more heavy rains under the influence of vigorous south west monsoon and a well marked low pressure over northwest Bay of Bengal, administration in both the Telugu states was put on alert.
The weather office has said that more heavy rains were likely on in the cities of Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatanam and other parts of the North Andhra.
Cyclone Warning Centre Visakhapatanam has also warned that strong surface winds from westerly direction with a speed of 55 kms per hour were likely along the AP coast.
The heavy rains of last two days has brought down the deficit of rainfall drastically. In Hyderabad itself it came down from 29 per cent to 14 per cent.
But the roads suffered extensive damage across the city. Rains and water logging left potholes and turns the roads into a pile of sand and gravel causing immense difficulties to the commuters. With vehicles moving at snails pace there were traffic jams everywhere.
"Travelling in these battered roads is nothing less than an adventure. It has become a back breaking experience", said Janardhan Reddy, a software engineer who had to spend double the time in travelling to Hitec City from his home in Ameerpet.
So far the city has recorded 115 mm of rains against normal average rainfall of 180 mm.
In Andhra Pradesh rains left the buildings in makeshift secretariat in the under development capital Amaravati leaking.