When the rains pounded Nirmal district on July 13, around 50 residents of Dam Gudem village in Kaddam mandal had to move to a hillock after an alert was issued to evacuate the village and move people to a higher ground.
Apart from the non-stop rain, villagers had to overcome the gushing waters of the canal that came in between the village and the hillock.
Dam Gudem is a few 100 metres from the over six-decade-old Kaddam Narayana Reddy Project. Inflow to the dam was more than its discharge capacity of 3 lakh cusecs. By the time, the villagers decided to leave, water in the dam had crossed its Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of 700 feet.
