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Chennai rains: Don't Believe WhatsApp rumor On NASA report
By: Tupaki Desk | 8 Dec 2015 1:34 PM GMT
Chennaiites, battling to pick up pieces of their lives after an unprecedented flood caused death and destruction. Meanwhile a shocking rumour was doing rounds in social media. The people who were still suffering were misguided by wrong information on social media and WhatsApp.
A WhatsApp message asking people in Chennai to leave the city immediately as a Nasa report had predicted very heavy rain in the next 72 hours. Though the origin of the message is unknown, it is going viral with many distressed citizens in Tamil Nadu forwarding it The message claimed that the entire city would get submerged. But NASA has not issued such a report.
A look at the latest press releases in the organisation's website shows no such report. This is not the first time such an incident has occurred.
Here is the message
Warning:
"if any of your friends or relatives are living in Chennai ask them to leave Chennai immediately because in the next 72 hours very heavy rain is expected more than multiple level of the present rain. As per NASA Report this is not the ordinary rain. It’s name is EL Nino cyclone. There is a chance for 250 cm rain. Chances are there nearly the entire Chennai may be submerged in water. Search in Google, you will understand. Somehow inform of your friends and relatives in Chennai."
A WhatsApp message asking people in Chennai to leave the city immediately as a Nasa report had predicted very heavy rain in the next 72 hours. Though the origin of the message is unknown, it is going viral with many distressed citizens in Tamil Nadu forwarding it The message claimed that the entire city would get submerged. But NASA has not issued such a report.
A look at the latest press releases in the organisation's website shows no such report. This is not the first time such an incident has occurred.
Here is the message
Warning:
"if any of your friends or relatives are living in Chennai ask them to leave Chennai immediately because in the next 72 hours very heavy rain is expected more than multiple level of the present rain. As per NASA Report this is not the ordinary rain. It’s name is EL Nino cyclone. There is a chance for 250 cm rain. Chances are there nearly the entire Chennai may be submerged in water. Search in Google, you will understand. Somehow inform of your friends and relatives in Chennai."
