It didn’t have Doppler radars in the Himalayan region to predict onset of cloudbursts.
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To put this in other words, when governments change too quick- the main goal of MLAs and Ministers is how to extract maximum cash from builders, mining mafias and corrupt bureaucrats who want transfer-posting in plump position.Successive governments have failed in creating any sort of medium term or long-term plan or vision for the state.political fragility has resulted in ad-hoc and unplanned development.Successive CAG reports have made scathing remarks on the lack of disaster management preparations in the Uttarakhand state.This has resulted in lack of continuity and failure in getting a firm grip on the issues plaguing the state- including disaster management.Meaning average tenure of a CM is ~2 years. Uttarakhand has seen 6 different Chief Ministers within last 13 years.Everyone trying to make mint money from pilgrims/tourists yet none of them were build with sound engineering or structural safety. Construction activities, especially hotels and resorts, guest houses and travel lodges on the river bed.Mining= use of dynamites, weakened the mountains.Hydro project in Bhagirathi = too many hydropower projects, changing river courses, poor structural safety.Meaning following activities had to be banned: This notification declares the region Gaumukh and Uttarakashi, along the Bhagirathi river, as an eco-sensitive zone. In 2012, Ministry of Environment and Forests gives a notification under Environment Protection Act.roads blocked=rescue force can’t go in, victims can’t go out. ^All these activities had already rendered the mountains unstable. Even dynamites are used to cut the mountains and make roads.heavy machines plying the earth everyday.the huge expansion of roads and transport.
Himalayan Mountains will remain steady if not tampered with much. Why Himalayan Tsunami is a man-made disaster?Ĭloudbursts have happened in past also, but the amount of death and damage in Uttarakhand is unprecedented. Thus, all those shops, hotels, apartments were constructed very close to the river banks got washed away.Īdditionally landslides destroyed the road network in the mountains hence relief couldnot reach on time. Same way, the rivers filled with mud, snow, ice- rushes through the hills and cliffs- they will cause more erosion, sweep away whatever comes in their way. This time, you know the water will hurt a lot more. Police mixes stones, ball bearings and ice cubes into their water tank and then uses water cannon on the mob.Bhagirathi, Alaknanda and Mandakini rivers were already flowing with lot of water (due to snow-melting).These flash floods washed the mud, stones and slush (Partially melted snow) from mountains into rivers.e.g heavy snow melting from Chorabari glacier=> water level increased in the river Mandakini and Chorabari Lake. This accelerates the process of snow melting.Therefore, when water molecules touch snow=> greater rate of heat transfer.The molecules in liquid water are more tightly packed than the molecules in air.Water has a higher heat capacity than air.It helped the snow to melt fast from Chorabari Glarier. The dead weight of the cloud is so massive and unbearable that it simply collapses under its own weight=>extreme precipitation within a short span of time=>flash flood.During Cloudburst, massive coagulated clouds with heavy water content hover, over a very small location.
Hence favorable location for convective weather systems.ĭiverts rain-bearing winds away from the Indian subcontinent. India surrounded by oceans from three sides.A cloudburst can occur anytime and at any place which is affected by convective weather systems.Often accompanied by thunder and lightning.Why Himalayan Tsunami is a man-made disaster?.GSM4: Ethics – Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude.
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