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Over 10 houses were destroyed in coastal areas here due to rough seas.
The news will augur well for the country as large parts have been witnessing agriculture distress and water levels in reservoirs in west and south India have dipped to low levels.
A yellow alert was issued for Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Thrissur districts that would see widespread rain on Saturday.
Paddy fields, the largest wetlands, have shrunk in the past 20 years from eight lakh hectares to 2.5 lakh hectares. Hills that store water during the rainy season has been flattened. These factors pose a big challenge for water security in Kerala.
The water level in the state's hydel reservoirs has dropped to a scary 11 per cent; it was way back in 2002 that water levels had plunged lower than this.
Minister for Water Resources K Krishnankutty faced the ire of residents of Valiyathura, when he visited the coastal area to take the stock of the situation.
Southwest monsoon, which had been in a lull after a destructive phase in early August, has suddenly picked up.
An orange alert has been issued for Kasargod district on Sunday and a yellow alert for Monday. A yellow alert has been declared in Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur districts.
Official data can be so deceptive that it can casually hide the sudden and terrifying form the monsoon had acquired for some fleeting days in August in these two years.
The power and telephone lines had gotten cut many days before the landslip in strong rain and winds. The Periyavare bridge too had collapsed and this made rescue efforts even more difficult.
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