Himachal Cloudburst: Flash flood horror in Dharamshala, NH blocked in Shimla

New Delhi: Flash floods in Himachal Pradesh have crippled normal life. An incident of cloudburst was reported in Dharamshala triggering a flood-like situation, the National Highway was blocked near Jhakri in the Rampur area of Shimla district following heavy rainfall. The process of clearing the road had begun with officials making their way to the site.

Himachal Pradesh has been receiving heavy rainfall for the last few days as the weather department predicted and issued an orange weather warning of heavy rains on July 12 and 13 and a yellow weather warning for July 14 and 15.

Many videos of flash floods wreaking havoc in Dharamshala have now gone viral on social media.

Here are some of the visuals:

These visuals of Cloudburst in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh are terrifying.

I urge youth congress workers to help tourists & citizens affected by heavy floods. @IYCHimachal pic.twitter.com/qyHqGQAnFu

— Srinivas BV (@srinivasiyc) July 12, 2021

Receiving more scary visuals of Bhagsu Cloudburst pic.twitter.com/ptPmBDx050

— Shekhar Dutt (@DuttShekhar) July 12, 2021

The #dharamshala cloudburst#HimachalPradesh
Please take care? pic.twitter.com/9vJFXFMnDo

— Saurabh Prakash Srivastav (@SPSrivastav1986) July 12, 2021

Flashflood in Kangra Distt. Bhagsunag, Mcloedganj, and downstream affected.

Stay alert everyone. Tourists please avoid traveling to district Kangra! #kangraflashflood #bhagsunag #Mcleodganj #HimachalPradesh #Cloudburst pic.twitter.com/JN57u4IHAc

— Amit Chaudhary (@acechaudhary) July 12, 2021

Dharamshala (Hp): Flash Flood In Bhagsu Nag #Dharamshala Due To Heavy Rainfall In #Mcleodganj#Flood #rains pic.twitter.com/pjdKwqxuxA

— Amit Sahu (@amitsahujourno) July 12, 2021

Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely today at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Gujarat Region, Madhya Maharashtra, coastal Andhra Pradesh &Yanam, Telangana, coastal and south interior Karnataka, Kerala and Mahe and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed yesterday.