Usually, the low-lying areas, slums and other impoverished ghettos will get inundated by rain water and people will have to leave Chennai. But his years heavy rain has flooded many localities across the city. Many localities like Anna Nagar, Ashok Naga, Adyar, Saidapet, T.Nagar. Kodampakkam. Virgampakkam, CIT Nagar Nandanam,Velachery,Madipakkam and other areas have been flooded with chest deep or neck deep water. These localities have many high rise apartments and families belonging to middle class and upper middle -class families. Rainwater has entered in many ground floor and first floor houses in these localities and people either have to vacate these places or get stuck and stranded in second floor houses for safety.

Even Kollywood celebrities have faced the fury of rain and water has entered into their pos bungalows forcing them to leave to safer places. Actress Trisha's house in Cenotaph lane, a posh location in Chennai has been flooded and she has reported left to some other place with her mother. Rainwater has entered in Actor Arya's house in Anna Nagar and Vishal's residence in Virgambakkam.

Actor Siddharth has reportedly takne his belonging to the terrace of his house in Chennai and has been staying there as his house is surrounded by rain water.