Oh! It is Cloud Burst!

Abstract

It was a black Friday on the 6^th of August 2010 (actually the 5^th night) for the inhabitants of the town Leh located in the Ladakh region of Janimu and Kashmir. The next day on the 7 ^th of August 2010 the entire country were dumbstruck to hear the news of a natural disaster of enormous magnitude caused by cloudbursts in the town of Leh the day before. The extent of damage could be guessed from the loss of 179 lives and about 400 people getting injured with various degrees. The entire town with all its buildings, roads and fields got totally submerged under a thick cover of layers of dense liquid mud caused by landslide and flash flood. The sudden and huge dimension of mudflow is a matter of spine chilling experience which only reminds one the horror of tsunami in recent time affecting the entire south eastern coastal region of our earth. So it is quite natural to try to understand the phenomenon which can bring a destruction of this scale within a span of not more than a few minutes.