Cyclone Murasu has cut off transportation to several villages in erstwhile Khammam district after floodwaters overflowed streams and washed away a temporary road on Wednesday.

The storm dumped extreme amounts of rain across the region in just 24 hours, and the damage is spreading mandal by mandal.

Extreme rainfall hits Kothagudem and Khammam

Mulakalapalli and Dammapet in Kothagudem district recorded extreme rainfall of 23.1 cm and 21.4 cm respectively. In Khammam, Sathupalli logged an extreme rainfall of 21.8 cm.

Several other mandals were hammered by very heavy rain. Vemsoor, Julurupad, Penuballi, Aswaraopet, Bhadrachalam, Chunchupally, Madhira, Enkoor, Tallada, Burgampad, Paloncha and Kothagudem all received very heavy downpours.

Cyclone Murasu has wreaked havoc in erstwhile Khammam district with several mandals receiving extremely heavy rainfall in the past 24-hours.

That line sums up the scale of what residents are facing. The rain did not arrive as a steady drizzle. It came as a concentrated burst that overwhelmed streams and cut off routes that people depend on daily.

Villages cut off as streams overflow

Transport links collapsed first. Overflowing streams left many villages with no road access on Wednesday. For communities already under pressure from the storm, that isolation is the most immediate problem.

The disruption was not limited to small rural lanes. A temporary approach road built next to a bridge across the Pamuleru stream was swept away by floodwaters. That bridge had already collapsed on the outskirts of Rajupeta recently, and the temporary workaround has now gone too.

As a result, vehicle movement on the Mulakalapalli-Dammapet National Highway has come to a standstill. A major arterial route is shut, and the detour options are limited in a region where water is still rising across roads and fields.

Crops and harvest hit across the mandals

The cyclonic rains came with strong winds, and the combination flattened standing crops. Paddy, cotton and chilli were all damaged in many mandals.

Harvested produce was not spared either. Rain dampened stored crops across several mandals, raising the risk of further losses for farmers who had already brought their yields in from the fields.

Coal output at SCCL mines affected

The storm did not stop at farmland. Coal production in SCCL opencast mines at Kothagudem, Sathupalli and Manuguru was affected by the weather. Those three locations sit at the heart of the Singareni coal belt, and any disruption there ripples beyond the district.

Here is the regional angle that matters most. Khammam and Kothagudem are inside Telangana, so the damage to roads, crops and mining operations lands directly on the state’s own economy and its people. The same districts that feed the state’s coal output are now dealing with flooded roads and cut-off villages.

What comes next

The report does not give a count of affected households or a timeline for restoring the washed-away road. What it does make clear is that the rain has already reshaped daily life across several mandals in one night of heavy weather.

For anyone trying to reach a village, a highway or a mine in the affected belt, the advice is simple. Assume the route is broken until you confirm otherwise.