MANGALURU: Teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire department and local swimmers have continued the search for the 20-year-old man, who was feared drowned in Phalguni river near Moodushedde dam on Wednesday.With three days having gone by after the incident, the chances of the man’s survival look bleak.Sushanth, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar was feared drowned around 5.30pm on Sunday. According to the police, he accidentally slipped into the flooded river.Meanwhile, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad has sounded a high wave alert for the coast of Karnataka. High waves in the range of 3-4 metres are forecast during 5.30pm on Tuesday to 11.30pm on Thursday along the coast of Karnataka from Mangaluru to Karwar. Current speeds may vary between 68 - 86cm/sec.Strong winds from westerly direction, speed reaching 35-45kmph gusting to 55kmph occasionally are likely along and off Karnataka, Kerala coasts and over Lakshadweep area. Fishermen are advised not to venture into the sea over the southwest, central and north Arabian Sea regions.The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre has forecast widespread heavy to very heavy rain over coastal Karnataka and moderate to heavy rain over Malnad districts up to 8.30am on Thursday.All three districts of coastal Karnataka – Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada – recorded more than normal rainfall as on Wednesday morning. Uttara Kannada marked the highest departure of 122% with an actual rainfall of 68.5mm, the normal being 30.8mm. Udupi received 53.5mm rainfall, a departure of 20% from the normal rainfall of 44.4mm. Dakshina Kannada witnessed the least departure of 8%. The normal rainfall was 43% while the actual rainfall was 46.4%. Kodkani with 188.5mm rainfall, Madamakki with 123mm and Kombaru with 111.5mm rainfall were the locations that received maximum rainfall in the three districts respectively.Between 8.30am on Tuesday and 8.30am on Wednesday, Dakshina Kannada saw a maximum temperature of 28.9ºC, Udupi recorded 28.7 ºC and Uttara Kannada 26.4 ºC. Incidents of landslides and power cuts continued to haunt the three districts.The heavy downpour at Kodimbala in Kadaba has marooned a bus stand at Kallantadka, forcing the passengers to await buses outside. The road near the bus stand was recently widened and heightened. This has led to water from the road flowing into the bus stand which is now at a lower level. Streams, rivulets and rivers have been flowing in high intensity. Lack of drainage has worsened the situationThe submersible Hosamatha Bridge, 15km near Uppinangady, went under water twice on Wednesday- once in the morning and again in the evening. But not many people take this route during monsoons, nonetheless it causes inconvenience to unwary travellers or villagers. The bridge being low in height always submerges when the Kempuholey dam near Shiradi Ghat, Gundya, releases excess water when there is lot of inflow.The district recorded 46mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours from 8.30am of Tuesday. Puttur Taluk received the highest rainfall of 65 mm, with Mangaluru taluk receiving the least at 15mm of rainfall. Bantwal, Sullia and Belthangady taluks received 31mm, 57 and 61mm of rainfall respectively. Last year the district had received 19mm of rainfall on the same day.The water level in Nethravathi river at Bantwal was 6.3 meters with danger level being 8.5 meters. The water level of Nethravathi river at Uppinangady and Kumaradhara river were below danger levels at 22 meters each with danger levels being 28.5 meters and 29.5 meters respectively.

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