Originally posted by: ibnbattuta
Pilgrimage movie. Sounds interesting..
But the floods happened because dam operators covertly release dam waters to prevent breach. At heights of 5-6000m like in the mountains, no amount of rainfall can cause floods otherwise and no, rivers don't get blocked just like that either. The only blocks to rivers are manmade dams.You see this all the time now. Recently, India has accused China of releasing water surreptitiously from their dams on Brahmaputra river causing Assam floods. That Assam is situated in a depression area is another reason too though.
That was not the sole reason of the calamity. The region experiencd pre mature rainfall due to the winds when blew the monsoon from I guess Rajasthan to Uttarkashi. This further led to cloud burst. The main reason of the floods was the presence of a lake like thing at one of the glaciers which was basically a large pit collecting dirty water from the melting ice and rainfall year after the year. It consisted of million litres of dirty water. When a huge block of ice fell in the said pit, it led to breaking of its structure releasing all its content into the valley. Thus aggravating the already disastrous cloud burst.
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