reporter: also what s behind me, so hard to see preparations for the storm, but behind me at the hospital here, this is tampa general hospital. you can see that wall. that s a built wall. they deal with a lot of water. they want to keep this level one trauma center open but you can imagine with the amount of rain and the storm surge, so many folks have to deal with, they want to make sure barriers are up and the mayor talked about making sure people did not drive through water because we obviously see that from storm to storm. today at the news conference she made it very clear she hopes people heed the warnings as they get closer and closer to the storm hours. it s going to be in our rivers, in our canals, in our stormwater drains and dishes. reporter: so we saw folks getting in line for over two hours to get sand bags and at most sand bag locations they could only get ten sand bags. we saw neighbors picking up sand
Marquee tech parks and plush gated communities are among encroachers of stormwater drains in Bengaluru's IT hub, which last week faced some of the worst waterlogging in recent memory.
The BBMP will deploy different agencies to maintain the 573-kilometre-long stormwater drains (SWDs) or rajakaluves. Meant to stop flooding of low-lying areas, the project has been split into 30 packages, an indication that the MLAs had their way in ensuring direct supervision of the works.
A Makhanda undertaker emerged as one of the heroes of the day yesterday as a torrential downpour left Makana’s emergency services thinly stretched. With 50mm falling in just more than half an hour, homes and businesses across the city were flooded, trees toppled and flooded causeways left many roads impassable.