Downpour, gusty winds uproot trees, throw life out of gear in Hubballi

Heavy donwpour coupled with gusty winds resulted successful uprooting of respective trees and waterlogging astatine assorted junctions throwing beingness retired of cogwheel successful Hubballi connected Monday evening.

Although the downpour lasted astir fractional an hour, it was the gusty winds that created havoc.

As uprooted trees, breached branches fell crossed the roads and downpour resulted successful waterlogging, the metropolis witnessed kilometre-long postulation jams connected assorted roads.

The gusty winds besides resulted successful severing of cables and consequent to the uprooting of trees, powerfulness proviso was unopen down crossed the metropolis lone to resume precocious successful the night.

At Unkal Cross, waterlogging resulted successful vehicles lining up for kilometres connected the flyover and besides connected the Hubballi-Dharwad Road.

Because of a histrion that was uprooted adjacent BVB College successful Vidyanagar, vehicles were diverted to the BRTS Corridor.

As trees were uprooted and branches fell connected the alternate routes also, postulation jams were reported successful galore places and it took astir an hr for the constabulary to wide the congestion.

Kittur Chennamma Circle wherever postulation is already successful a messiness due to the fact that of the delayed flyover project, the concern worsened connected Monday evening aft the downpour.

A fig of vehicles were besides damaged arsenic they were caught nether falling trees. While 2 cars were damaged connected Shirur Park Road, an authorickshaw was damaged successful Old Hubballi.

While Dharwad besides received rainfall connected Monday, it was not arsenic terrible arsenic witnessed successful Hubballi.

On Sunday evening too, the duplicate cities witnessed downpur. Waterlogging was reported astatine important junctions and connected Monday too, it continued.