Beware if you're planning a weekend trip to Uttarakhand! The weather became worse today, closing the Badrinath NH and issuing a serious storm-water advisory for Dehradun and Nainital

 

Beware if you're planning a weekend trip to Uttarakhand! The weather became worse today, closing the Badrinath NH and issuing a serious storm-water advisory for Dehradun and Nainital

Uttarakhand Weather: A new video of a hill collapse in Chamoli's Chhinka has surfaced. The road has also been damaged as a result of large trees and stones falling on it. Due to hindrance, Char Dham Yatris are also stranded on the route. The work to unblock the road is still ongoing, though. There is a chance the road will open by late at night.

Dehradun. Uttarakhand is experiencing heavy monsoon rains. Life has gotten out of control, that is the situation. The Bureau of Meteor has issued a yellow alert for Nainital, Tehri, Dehradun, Pauri, Chamoli, Bageshwar, and Pithoragarh in anticipation of heavy rainfall. A lightning and strong storm warning has also been issued at this time in several locations. The fact that it has been intermittently raining for the past six days is significant.

Information indicates that the Chamoli district's Badrinath National Highway has once more been shut down. Once more, there is debris on the road close to Pchinka. Before, this route reopened after roughly 18 hours, but the current shutdown of the road has escalated people's problems once more.

Six state highways are among the 70 routes in the state that are closed as a result of the rain. In reality, the rivers' water levels are rising as a result of the constant rain. In the Doiwala region near Dehradun, the Saung and Suswa rivers are dangerous. As a precaution, tehsil government cars are there and urging locals to avoid the vicinity of rivers.

Another video of a hill in Chamoli's Chhinka collapsing has recently come to light. The road has also been damaged as a result of large trees and stones falling on it. Due to hindrance, Char Dham Yatris are also stranded on the route. However, there is still work to be done to open the road. There are talks of keeping the road open until late at night, but there are also issues because of the weather. Rain continues to fall in spurts.

Joshimath Nagar and Karnprayag are presently regarded as being extremely vulnerable to disaster. Here, the January cracks could lead to issues with the monsoon. Joshimath experienced an increase in cracks after January 2, affecting roughly 181 people, while over 800 homes were retained in the danger zone, green zone, and yellow zone. Government assistance and rescue efforts are still being made in Joshimath. Distribution of rations and compensation to impacted families. However, the monsoon is the cause for concern. The issues can become worse if the monsoon has additional rain.

what's occurred thus far

Another footage of a hill collapsing in Chamoli's Chhinka has surfaced. For the past 10 hours, the Badrinath National Highway has been blocked off near Chhinka. Both sides of the highway are blocked with stationary passenger cars. In this case, the administration has made the alternate route's traffic flow smoothly. A dog that had been imprisoned for the past three days on the Alaknanda River's banks in Marwari, Joshimath, has been successfully freed by the SDRF and police team. The last three days have seen continual rescue efforts to save the stupid. The Gomti and Saryu rivers' water levels have risen as a result of the monsoon rains in Bageshwar. Traffic on four motorways has been hampered by large debris, rocks, and downed trees. 

On NH 94, however, there have been landslides and massive rocks that have fallen from the mountainside. Due to this, the Gangotri Highway has developed large fissures. Due to stones falling from a hill near the Maneri waterfall towards Gangotri, the highway has been damaged. The back portion of Bhagatram Kothari's residence was damaged prior to the landslip caused by rain. Even after receiving authorization, the Irrigation Department officials continued to hinder the construction work, and the court granted a stay due to the gravity of the situation.