MAPUSA
Heavy rains pounded Goa since Wednesday morning, resulting in water-logging in many areas and a number of incidents of tree fall, throwing normal life out of gear even as the Met department issued a red alert predicting that heavy rain is expected to last until Thursday.
Following heavy rains since morning, several low-lying areas were flooded and water also entered into some houses.
The low-lying fields on either side of the National highway 66 in Guirim were inundated. Several roads including the stretch near the Guirim panchayat were also flooded due to the incessant rain.
Fire personnel and disaster management teams were on their toes attending to calls of water-logging and tree fall.
Several roads in the capital city remain waterlogged for hours even as Dayanand Bandodkar road and Miramar area were worst affected.
There were reports that water entered some houses in low-lying areas of Campal and Tonca.
A coconut tree fell on a Maruti van parked below it badly damaging the vehicle at Nerul.
A huge bhendi tree fell on a house at Chapora, Anjuna while another tree fell on a house at Khorlim, Mapusa.
Several city roads witnessed traffic jams as movement of traffic slowed down due to water-logging of roads even as vehicles getting stuck in roadside ditches due to softening of mud were reported.
By mid-afternoon the IMD issued a red alert over Goa as rain continued to lash the State.
