Team Herald
QUEPEM: Heavy rainfall for last six days has disarrayed regular life in many places of Quepem, Sanguem and Dharbandora taluka as trees got uprooted, streets were flooding, few compound walls collapsed and landslides, and many sporadic calamities of different scale ensued in the areas.
Even Curchorem didn’t escape the wrath of the monsoon. Rahul Dessai from Curchorem fire station while giving a account of damages the locals suffered due to rain was revealed that the station attended as many as eight calls in the in last four days and most of them were for uprooted trees from Bepqueghal and at Curchorem Sanvordem railway station at Curchorem, Kalay, Costi and Anandwadi in Sanvordem, Kodu at Dharbandoda, villages of Villian, Bhati, Colony no1 in Sanguem constituency ,Sondu at Dharbandoda.
Out of eight, five distressed calls were for tree felling on the road. Amrish Chari a resident of Sanvordem Constituency endured loss of around Rs 50,000 as teak tree fell upon his house and Garden Angel School would have to bear the expense of Rs 48,000 as a Peepal tree topples upon its compound wall and causing damage to the building too.
In Khutarkarwada at Sanguem where Tamarind tree fell upon a house that cost the owners estimated rupees Rs 10,000. The rains thus far has caused total loss of Rs 1,08,000,” said Dessai .
