| Rains, high velocity winds bring havoc | | Trees uprooted, electric wires snapped, standing crops damaged | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 6: Heavy rains with high velocity winds on Tuesday night lashed the J&K's winter capital and caused much damage. The strong gusts of wind uprooted trees, electric poles and hoardings, besides causing extensive damage to the standing crops. The electric wires were too snapped at several places, plunging the whole area into darkness.
A huge tree got uprooted near a famous ice cream parlour close to Shakti Nagar and fell on an electric transformer of PDD, damaging it badly. As a large part of the tree truck fell on the road, the vehicular traffic was disrupted till it was removed to the roadside.
The Amphalla road was too blocked after a tree fell in the middle of it. Another huge tree, which was uprooted at Bahu Plaza, too fell in the middle of the road, blocking it to vehicular traffic and the movement of the people.
At least four huge trees were uprooted at Manda, blocking the morning walkers' track.
Official sources said the trees were also uprooted at several other places of Jammu, but no one was wounded in these incidents. There were also unconfirned reports of the high velocity winds flattening kacha houses in some areas, the sources added.
At New Plots, a huge iron pole, that was erected near a JMC cafeteria and supported a hoarding, was too uprooted. Electric poles were also uprooted and wires snapped in several Jammu areas, plunging the winter capital into darkess.
While the broken wires were repaired and new poles were also erected at some places, the electricity supply was restored to the affected areas this afternoon.
Standing crops in several Jammu areas too suffered damages due to the high velocity winds, sources informed.
Communication lines were too said to have suffered extensive damages in some areas. |
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