Continuous rainfall under the influence of depression in the Bay has been disrupting life in the metropolitan cities of the country for the past tow days.
Our Chittagong correspondent adds: Many parts of the city have gone under ankle to knee-deep water because of the rainfall in the last two days.
Of the city areas, Bahodderhat, Muradpur, Chowkbazar, Sholoshahar, Agrabad Commercial Area, Shulukbahar, Badurtala, Bakolia, Halishahar Housing Estate and business hub in the city Chaktai-Khatunganja have been inundated.
Rainwater has entered the ground-floor residences, shops and warehouses in different city areas, causing sufferings to the dwellers and loss of property.
Traffic on many city streets, including Agrabad Access Road, Port Connecting Road, Chawk Bazar DC Road, Sheikh Mujib Road Road and CDA Avenue, is being affected because of water-stagnation.
On Friday, vehicles were seen caught up in water on the roads as water entered the exhaust pipes, causing traffic snarl-ups.
Rickshaws were in great demand although, in some cases, they charged twice the usual fare.
The Khulna correspondent reports: Heavy rain, from the early hours of Friday till the afternoon, caused water-stagnation in the low-lying areas of the city.
The low-lying Mujgunni area, a part of Nurnagar and Boyra area, parts of Khalishpur housing area, Bastuhara area, Boyra police lines and its adjacent areas, a part of Labanchara and west Tootpara, Sonadanga and Goborchaka area are now under water, local people said.
Traffic on the roads was very thin as people preferred staying at home to going outside amid rain.
The sales in different kitchen markets and Sonadanga wholesale kitchen market were very low because of the rain, said the traders.
Khulna met office recorded 101 millimeter of rain from Friday 6:00am to 6:00pm.
Rajshahi correspondent adds: Continual rain and drizzle all day long crippled the city life on Friday as people remained interned.
City dwellers could not go to market to buy daily commodities like vegetables, fishes, meat and other cocking items.
The owner’s of makeshift shops on footpath suffered badly as they had to keep their shops shut because of the rain.
A hawker, Rahim Uddin, of city’s New Market area told New Age, ‘For the past two days, I have kept my shop closed and so could not earn any money. I do not know how I shall manage my family.’
The traffic on the city roads was very thin.
The Rajshahi met office recorded 67.8 millimetre rain in the past two days.
Meanwhile, ceaseless rain, coupled with gusty wind, on Friday severely hampered the city life in Sylhet, our Sylhet correspondent said.
The rain that began Thursday night caused severe water-stagnation at Hawapara, Barutkhana, Hawapara, Jail road, Naiorpul, Mirabazar, Shibganj, Lamabazar, Dariapara, Kajal Shah, Sagar Dighirpar, Munshipara, Bilpar, Sobhanighat, Chhararpar, Kalighat, Bharthakhala, Khujarkhala and Jallarpar, forcing the people to stay at home.
Almost all the shopping malls, market places and shops in and around the residential areas across the city remained closed.
The number of pedestrians and traffic was very thin on the city streets.
A small number of vehicles were seen plying the city streets with their headlights on even during the daytime as the sun was not seen over the day.
The bad weather, however, did not hamper the operation of the scheduled flights at the Sylhet Osmani International Airports, sources in the airport authorities said.
SOIA station manager Motahar Hosen told New Age in the afternoon that there were two scheduled flights of the state-run Bangladesh Biman.
‘A flight already had left the Sylhet airport at about 3:30pm and the other is scheduled to arrive here at 8:00pm and would leave for Dhaka at 8:45pm,’ the station manager said.
The Met office recorded 61 centimeter rain between 6:00am and 3:00pm, with the lowest temperature, 22.2 degrees Celsius, recorded on the day.
Our Barisal correspondent adds: The weather condition in the city improved slightly on Friday, with continual rain.
Many of the Barisal city roads and low-lying areas remained under water for lack of proper drainage and sewerage system.
