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A day after monsoon showers accompanied by high-velocity winds tore through city uprooting a good number of full-grown trees across the city civic body is swamped with calls from residents.


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According to Anirudh Dubey, agro-meterologist met department of CSA university, the gusty winds blowing across the city at a speed of around 75 to 100 km/hour wrecked havoc and uprooted the trees and the electricity poles. 

It got dark in the early hours of the evening and the vehicle owners had to switch on the headlamps to drive comfortably. The two wheeler owners had to stop driving due to the dust and poor visibility. The gravity of the storm could be understood from the fact that people held their hands to prevent themselves from falling. 

The storm also plunged the city into darkness and faults were reported from a number of localities. According to Kesco, the severe storm affected the power supply of the entire city and the electric poles got uprooted. It may take a complete day for the power situation to return to normalise. 

The tin sheds went with the storm and fell on the streets. Several mud houses and makeshift shops went down with the storm. 

The storm was followed by rains which brought down the mercury. Though the storm and the rains brought much cherished relief to the city denizens but it also wrecked havoc. A number of trees got uprooted. The storm brought the traffic movement to a standstill. 

Dust storm badly affects the movement of the vehicles in the city. It has turned dark and has also started drizzling.

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Dust storm in Lucknow

A high speed dust storm hit the city at around 3.45 pm on Sunday.

Wind and dust storm has struck Ludhiana and electricity supply  in many parts of the city was disrupted because of the same.  vaivasvat.venkat@timesgroup.com

Nanda Sardar, 45, was killed after her house at at Dhunki, under Panchra police station, collapsed after being lashed by torrential rain and gale.

In order to prevent any law and order problem, police arrested 353 people, including rowdies and ex-convicts, in a storming operation on Saturday. A total of 44 people were arrested under the section 109 and 110 of the CrPC. This includes 15 ex-convicts.Police checked vehicles and booked 98 people for drunken driving


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