many roads in velachery were waterlogged within the first 30 minutes leading to several motorists being stuck there for more than half an hour the traffic officials are only clearing vehicles in the oncoming directionthe subway near loyola college was closed after heavy inundation caused an mtc bus to break down i was stranded for halfanhour at parrys corner on my way home to royapuram said d venkatesh a media professional waterlogging was heavy in the lowlying area corporation officials said trees were uprooted in several areas including ramnagar in velachery panchaliamman koil street in arumbakkam mukund garden road in chetpet and outside the semmozhi poonga on cathedral road the subway near the reserve bank was also closed when i passed there around 815 the subway was completely flooded and vehicles had been stranded for 45 minutes said s abhishek of loyola college many cars stalled on the road had to be pushed leading to a traffic jam a few motorbikes were attempting to ride through a live wire snapped from its moorings on the pole in padmavathy nagar of saligramam and the road was closed for traffic the water reached up to their seats at the lowest point in the subway in t nagar many unsuspecting shoppers were caught unawares and several bylanes got flooded commuters also reported a couple of treefalls in royapuram and one in gopalapuram chennai the sudden thunderstorm that struck the city around 730 om on monday wreaked havoc bringing traffic to a halt in several areas flooding arterial roands and closing up subways other lowlying areas like washermenpet basin bridge choolai vyasarpadi and otteri were also flooded in guindy several barricades from the metro rail construction fell apart causing a heavy traffic jam i am stuck on the velacheryraj bhavan road for more than half an hour it professional vijay bhaskar said from the spot at 8 pm i have been stuck on this road for nearly an hour since 730 pm because of this said r sharanyan who was on his way to the airport