LATEST ON CHENNAI FLOODS: Met Department predicts more rain in the city

Chennai on Thursday turned coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and a virtual island were marooned in 100 years pounded the city, its suburbs and neighbouring districts closing the airport, ruining railway and road connections and leaving thousands homeless.

Tonight, the Airport Authority of India anounced that Chennai airport will stay close in the aftermath of forecasts of more rains in the next 72 hours and the battering downpour till December 6.

Where the reservoir surplussed about 25,000 cusecs of water into Adyar river, received, Chennai, which received 49 cm of rain and Chembarambakkam 47 cm of rains in the last 24 hours that flooded the city , uprooting suburbs and the people from their houses.