The state authorities have evacuated 72,697 people in 9 districts, to safer places.
Heavy rains lashing across the state, for the past 5 days have been playing havoc in people's lives, with the death toll reaching 29 on Saturday.
Prakasam district has the highest casualties with 6 deaths, followed by Guntur (5), Mahabubnagar (4), Hyderabad (3), Kurnool (3), Vizianagaram (2), West Godavari (2), Nalgonda (2) and Warangal (2).
2 persons have been reported missing in the Visakhapatnam district.
Most deaths have occurred due to wall collapses.
A total of 3,230 villages in 421 mandals of 16 districts were affected due to the continuous rains.
Srikakulam and Mahabubnagar districts are the worst hit with 800 villages each getting affected due to the nature's fury.
As many as 583 villages in Nalgonda, 280 in Prakasam, 150 each in West Godavari and Kadapa, 120 in Krishna, 102 in Vizianagaram, 80 in Ranga Reddy, 53 in East Godavari and 52 villages in Visakhapatnam district are reported to be badly affected.
As many as 16 mandals in Hyderabad district too have been affected due to the heavy rains.
Also, there has been a damage of 6,597 houses 10/26/2013across the state.
The authorities have so far evacuated 72,697 people in 9 districts, to safer places.
People from Srikakulam (45,000), Guntur (11,000), Prakasam (8,946), East Godavari (2,757), Visakhapatnam (2,375), Nalgonda (1,696), Vizianagaram (472), Krishna (401) and Nellore (50) have all been shifted to 178 relief camps, set by the government.
Crops spread across an area of 5.64 lakh hectares have been damaged. Paddy (2.91 lakh Ha.), Cotton (2.33 lakh Ha.), Groundnut (0.09 Lakh Ha.), Redgram (0.04 lakh Ha.) and Maize (0.07 lakh Ha.) fields are the worst hit.
Hotriculture crops of over 32,673 hectares (including chillies (15,127 Ha) and vegetables (12,515 Ha)) have been damaged.
As many as 555 cattle have also died due to rains and flooding.
A total of 12 NDRF teams have been assigned to service the relief and rescue operations.
While 4 teams have been deployed in Srikakulam, 3 teams are working in Guntur, 2 teams in Prakasam and 1 each in Nalgonda, West Godavari and Mahabubnagar district.
As many as 405 minor irrigation tanks are said to be damaged in Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam districts.
Landslides on Srisailam ghat road disrupted the traffic, earlier today.
The entire state administration has been put on alert following the heavy rainfall warning given by the Meteorology Department.
"Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places with extremely heavy rain at isolated places would occur in all the districts of Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana during next 48 hrs. Heavy to very heavy rain would occur at isolated places in all the districts of Rayalaseema during the same period," the Met Department said in its latest bulletin. (INN)