Please read the details below. I request anyone who is reading this to please stop wherever you are or whatever you are doing and please take some time to pray for the souls of people who lost their lives and for those who are still struggling. Every prayer will count and help make a difference. May the Almighty help them all in every way needed. AMEN. The monsoon rains hit North India by June 15, 2013 — almost two weeks in advance but no one could have imagined what was about to come. Yes it was the ‘Himalayan Tsunami’, a spell of deadly cloudburst, flood, glacier burst in Kedarnath, the sacred land of gods, or Dev Bhoomi as we call it, was totally devastated. The disaster can truly be described as a one of epic proportions. What made it worse was the human toll it took in form of pilgrims and tourists that flock to the hill State in the summer months of May/June for Char Dham Yatra before the rains arrive in July. Disaster struck on the night of June 16, 2013 when a confluence of two weather systems – one of the north westerlies collided with moisture-laden monsoon winds over Uttarakhand and lead to a series of cloud bursts which made rivers like Alaknanda, Mandakani and Bhagirathi burst banks, overflow and destroy anything in their path. The fury of nature has been nothing short of a catastrophe with thousands reportedly killed and an equal number of people missing, while around one lakh people were stranded in Uttarakhand with roads washed away. They were stranded on hilltops in difficult terrain amid rain with no supply of food or water for days.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:49:03 +0000
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