Kerala SOS: Keralites back to nesting lives as water levels recede

Restoration work in Kerala is up and running. Earlier today, the Twitter handle of Kerala Chief Minister's Office posted that so far, as many as 1,31,683 houses wrecked in the flood have been cleaned.

The worst floods in close to a century submerged Kerala between August 8 and 16, killing over 400 persons and displacing over 720,000, roughly equal to the population of Puducherry. In the month of August (1-20), the state received 771 mm of rainfall, 179 per cent more than usual.