Chennai floods: City devastated after heaviest rains in a century

Army personnel during the rescue operation in Chennai after heavy rainfall on Thursday. (Source: PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar) READ: Chennai Floods Video: See how green Madras became brown Chennai

People help a man carry his two-wheeler on a cycle cart as they wade through a waterlogged subway in Chennai on Monday. Heavy rains continue to lash several parts of the city as the Meteorological Department alerted a cyclone warning on the Bay of Bengal coast. PTI Photo READ: Chennai floods: Decoding the city’s worst rains in 100 years

People move to safe places from flooded Kotturpuram during heavy rains in Chennai on Wednesday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar READ: Chennai reaches out: From crowdsourcing food, shelter to phone recharge offer

People moving to safe places in flooded Kotturpuram area following rains in Chennai on Wednesday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar READ: The only way in — 1 train and then a 180-km road stretch

A group of deer were assembled at safer place as lying areas of Chennai inundated after heavy downpour on Thursday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar READ: Ripples in Paris after devastating floods in Chennai

A man carries an elderly woman as she is rescued from a flooded area following heavy rains in Chennai, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years has devastated swathes of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with thousands forced to leave their submerged homes and schools, offices and a regional airport shut for a second day Thursday. WATCH: Why Chennai is flooded

People moving to safer places from a flooded area in Chennai after heavy rainfall in on Thursday. PTI Photo READ: Food, water prices up, ATMs down

A army man lifts a sick person after rescuing him from a flooded locality in rain-hit Chennai on Thursday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar READ: Unprecedented calamity, Chennai toll 269, says Rajnath Singh

A man moves to safe place from flooded Kotturpuram during heavy rains in Chennai on Wednesday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar READ: Food, shelter, rescue — via a website

A man moving to safer place from a flooded locality in rain-hit Chennai on Thursday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar READ: Over 200 health camps to check outbreak