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Heavy rain & snowfall in Himachal

Heavy rain and snowfall in the state completely paralysed the normal life on Monday as road transport, power and water supply schemes disrupted in the most snowline areas.
The inceasent rain and snowfall lasted for two days gave respite on Monday morning as it was mainly sunny. 
Tourist places Shimla, Manali, Narkanda, Dalhousie and Kufri got half to one feet thick layer of snowfall. The most places lashed by inceasent rainfall also kept normal life out of gear.
One elderly woman died in Bhanot village of Chamba district this morning  after heavy rain triggered a landslide. 
Entire tribal areas are cut off from the rest of world as nearly 400 roads including Hindustan Tibet National Highway and Manali-ATR-Keylong (NH-3) are snowbound.
In the Capital town power supply was off in most places, roads are snowbound and commuters are forced to walk onfoot as half feet snows are in the pavement.
Water pipelines freezed in many places in Shimla and many town as Mercury plummet several degrees in the minus.
 Bharmaur(Chamba) and Khadrala(shimla):60.9 cm Ghondla(Lahaul-spiti) 40 cm, Shimla 30 cm, Keylong 29 cm and Kufri 20 cm and Kalpa nine mm.
 Dhrampur(Solan) had 73 mm rain, Solan  71 and Jubberhatti (Shimla)60 mm, Sundernagar 50 mm, Nahan in Sirmaur 47 mm, Mandi 42 mm, Bhuntar 36 mm, Palampur 26.7 mm, Dharmshala 17.8 mm,
Minimum temperature of Keylong was minus 6.2 degrees, Kalpa minus 3.8 degrees, Manali minus 0.4 degrees, Kufri minus 3.2 degrees,Dalhousie zero degrees, Shimla minus 0.3 degrees.
Sundernagar 3.7 degreesBhuntar) 1.8 degrees, Dharamshala) 2.2 degrees Una 7.4 degrees, Nahan 8.5 degrees, Palampur 3.5 degrees, Solan 1.4 degrees, Kangra 5.6degrees, Mandi) 4degrees, Bilaspur 6.5 degreesHamirpur) 6.8 degrees, Chamba 4.3 degrees, Ponta-Sahib) 9.9 degrees.
The Met Office forecast rain or Snowfall in few places of state in next 24 hrs.

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