Heavy rain and waterlogging over the past two days, combined with the possibility of a storm bringing more rain promises to make life difficult for officials who have to oversee the counting of votes for the recently-concluded Assembly elections in five states.The Meteorological Department has said a depression in the Bay of Bengal, which has brought heavy rain to parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry is presently moving in a north-northeast direction and is likely to intensify through Wednesday.Chennai has seen waterlogging in some parts. Given the experience of the floods in December, the National Disaster Response Force has been put on alert and the local administration has deployed all its resources to mitigate the effects. Assam too has been reeling from heavy rain. Landslides killed 10 people and injured 16 in Hailakandi and Karimganj districts in Assam. A strong room storing EVMs in Karimganj has been flooded. Guwahati has witnessed waterlogging in a number of areas, throwing traffic out of gear. Kerala has also seen heavy rain over the past two days, with more rain predicted in the coming days. There has been flooding in some parts of the state and emergency meetings have been called by the administration. Four temporary relief camps opened in Alappuzha and two relief camps in Thiruvananthapuram. No casualties have been reported so far. West Bengal too has been bracing itself, with the storm predicted to move northwards. The Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata has forecast heavy rain in the state.The Election Commission is yet to publically announce the steps it has taken so far to ensure counting proceeds smoothly in the five states.(With inputs from agencies)