

DEFINE CLOUDBURST SERIES
On August 6, 2010, in Leh, a series of cloudbursts left over 1000 persons dead (updated number) and over 400 injured in the frontier Leh town of Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir.On August 7, 2009, 38 people were killed in a landslide resulting from a cloudburst in Nachni area near Munsiyari in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand.On August 16, 2007, 52 people were confirmed dead when a severe cloud burst occurred in Bhavi village in Ghanvi, Himachal Pradesh.over a span of eight to ten hours the deluge completely paralysed India's largest city and financial centre. On 26 July 2005, A cloudburst caused approximately 950 millimetres (37 in) of rainfall in Mumbai.On July 6, 2004, At least 17 people were killed and 28 injured when three vehicles were swept into the Alaknanda river by heavy landslides triggered by a cloudburst that left nearly 5,000 pilgrims stranded near Badrinath shrine area in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.On July 16, 2003, About 40 persons were killed in flash floods caused by a cloudburst at Shilagarh in Gursa area of Kullu, Himachal Pradesh.Among the dead was Odissi dancer Protima Bedi. On AugA massive landslide following heavy rain and a cloudburst at Malpa village killed 250 people including 60 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims in Kali valley of the Kumaon division, Uttarakhand.On August 15, 1997, 115 people were killed when a cloud burst came bustling and trail of death are all that is left behind in Chirgaon in Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh.Entire river basin, from Hanumanchatti near the pilgrimage town of Badrinath to Haridwar was affected. In July, 1970 - Cloudburst in the upper catchment area led to a 15 metre rise in the Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand.

About 15,000 people were killed and around 80,000 houses were destroyed along the banks of this river.
DEFINE CLOUDBURST TORRENT
Rain, rain down - rainy, showery - drenching, soaking, souse, sousing - cloudburst, deluge, downpour, driving rain, Flood, pelter, pouring rain, rainstorm, shower, soaker, torrent, torrential rain, waterspout - flooding, immersion, submergence, submerging, submersion - alluvion, deluge, flood, flood disaster, flooding, inundation - submarine, submergible, submersible - flooding, implosion therapy - flood, flowage - barrage, deluge, flood, flow, inundation, stream, torrent īible, Book, Christian Bible, Evangel, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Scriptures, vulgate, Word, Word of God Ībundant, copious, lavish, plentiful, profuse, rich (of short duration short-lived), (briefness brevity) ĭownfall, precipitation - testament, will - wet - flood - fill, fill up, make full, pump up, top up

(violence), (aggressiveness truculence truculency), (violently), (do violence to violate murder) Recouvrir d'eau un lieu, inonder un lieu (fr) Pouring rain torrential rain driving rain
