Bengaluru continues to grapple with torrential rains that have wreaked havoc in many parts of the city and spared no one. Roads and homes are flooded, traffic is disrupted, and people have to be rescued as water seeps into their homes. A video showing the high-end cars from 65 lakhs Half submerged houses of 2.5 crore crores are going viral on social media.
The video shows some residents of Divyashree 77 East in Yamlur, Bengaluru being rescued on a tractor; The camera turns and shows something Luxury cars half submerged in rain water,
A photograph of the living room of a private villa in Yamlur shows expensive furniture and decorations half submerged in rain water.
Responding to the picture, a Twitter user said, “My heart goes out to those who damaged thousands of acres of crops and crores in floods.”
Another said, “This is one of the poshest colonies of #Bangalore where property prices are said to be above 8 crores. Tractors rescued civilians, while biggest cars are submerged in #bangalorerains.”
During the 2015 Chennai floods, many such cars worth crores were sold for meager pennies because they were either beyond repair or the cost of their repairs was too high. Some of these cars were submerged in water for about a week.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai quoted “unprecedented rain and overflow” water bodies for the deluge but assured his government’s commitment to restore normalcy.
“Karnataka, especially Bengaluru, has received unprecedented heavy rains… For the last 90 years no such rain has been recorded. All the tanks are full and overflowing, some of them have broken, and it is raining incessantly. It has been raining every day,” Bommai said.
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