Chennai Floods 2024 Date. Rescuers used inflatable rafts and ropes to pluck people out of their homes in chennai, a city of more than 6 million people and a major automobile and technology manufacturing hub. Chennai experienced severe flooding due to heavy rain, leading to significant delays and cancellations of trains, buses, and flights.

During the 2023 floods, more than 1,000 people were escorted using boats in the southern localities of pallikaranai, perungudi and sholinganallur while in north chennai, an oil. Per news reports from december 2023, cyclone michaung left a trail of destruction.