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Chennai was officially declared a disaster area on the evening of 2 December. At the MIOT Hospital, 14 patients died after power and oxygen supplies failed. With a letup in rainfall, floodwaters gradually began to recede in Chennai on 4 December, though 40 percent of the city's districts remained submerged and safe food and drinking water remained in short supply.Though relief efforts were well underway across most of the area by 3 December, the lack of any coordinated relief response in North Chennai forced thousands of its residents to evacuate on their own.As intermittent rains returned, thousands of displaced residents from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts attempted to flee the stricken region by bus or train and travel to their family homes. Chennai International Airport was partly reopened for cargo flights on 5 December, with passenger flights scheduled to resume from the following morning.By 6 December, rescue efforts had largely concluded and relief efforts were intensifying, with the Chennai Corporation beginning to disburse relief packages. Mobile, banking and power services were gradually being restored; fuel and food supplies were getting through, the airport had fully reopened and rail services were slowly resuming. Many city neighbourhoods, however, remained flooded with some lacking basic necessities due to the uncoordinated distribution of relief material. Schools and colleges, which had been closed for nearly a month, were scheduled to remain closed through the following week, as further rainfall was predicted for the following four days.With the city slowly beginning to recover, state and national health officials remained watchful against disease outbreaks, warning conditions were right for epidemics of water-borne illnesses.Chennai Corporation officials reported at least 57,000 homes in the city had suffered structural damage, mostly those of low-income people. State housing boards said they would conduct safety inspections of both public and residential buildings. South of Chennai, heavy rains and flooding persisted into the second week of December. In Kancheepuram district, Chengalpattu, Guduvanchery, Perungalathur, Tambaram, Mudichur and Anakaputhur saidapet tnagar choolaimedu adayer ekaduthangal were inundated with up to 7 meters of water by 5 December, which washed away roads and severed rail links; 98 people from the district were reported to have died. During 4-5 December, parts of Villupuram and Tiruvarur districts received up to 10 centimeters of rain, while some towns in Cuddalore district saw up to nine centimeters. Flood alerts were broadcast to 12 villages in the neighbourhood of the Tirumurthy dam in Tirupur district on 7 December, as the dam was likely to reach capacity within two days; the residents of those villages were urged to evacuate.Due to rainfall in Tirunelveli district, all of its dams had reached or were approaching full capacity by 7 December, forcing local authorities to discharge thousands of cusecs of water from reservoirs and causing the Thamirabarani River to reach flood stage. Torrential rains inundated hundreds of acres of paddy fields in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts, and caused residential areas to flood by 8 December. Large parts of Thanjavur city were marooned by rising waters, while several houses collapsed under the brunt of rainfall in Kumbakonam and Veppathoor. After Chennai district, Cuddalore district was among those most severely affected by the flooding. Six of the district's 13 blocks suffered extensive damage during the floods in November. The resumption of heavy rainfall from 1 December again inundated the Cuddalore municipality and the district, displacing tens of thousands of people. Rains continued through 9 December. Despite the state government and individuals sending rescue teams and tonnes of relief materials to the district, thousands of those affected continued to lack basic supplies due to inadequate distribution efforts; this resulted in several relief lorries being stopped and looted by survivors.Large swaths of Cuddalore city and the district remained inundated as of 10 December, with thousands of residents marooned by floodwaters and over 60,000 hectares of farmland inundated; over 30,000 people had been evacuated to relief camps. As of 10 December, the state government had reported that over 300 people in Tamil Nadu were estimated to have died because of the flooding since 8 November,though relief workers alone had reported hundreds more who were missing.Over 11 lakh (1,100,000) people had been rescued.The state government reported preliminary flood damages of ?8481 crore (US$1 billion), and requested ?2000 crore (US$299 million) for immediate relief efforts. On 5 December, a senior state revenue official said the state's official estimates of flood-related losses in November alone exceeded ?9800 crore