Cars in heavy traffic were inching on the highway from the weekend rush on the hill-station.
The Dehradun-Mussoorie highway was jammed on Saturday after landslips and thick fog from hours of rainfall brought traffic to a standstill. Drains were overflowing with rubble throughout the tourist town of Uttarakhand, which is on high alert since Friday after 29 people were killed in major cloudbursts and landslides.
Major landslips on the Dehradun-Mussoorie highway jammed the road.
Cars in heavy traffic were inching on the highway from the weekend rush on the hill-station and the torrential rain only added to the chaos. But the district administration was quick to act to ensure moment of traffic.
The mayhem created by the season's first major rainfall has opened the loop holes of the town's unpreparedness to deal with monsoon rains. The Met department has issued a 72-hour warning of incessant rainfall in seven hill-districts of Garhwal and Kumaon region till Monday. Rescue teams consisting of the National Disaster Response Force and the Army have also been deployed in the state.