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| Highway reopens, supplies resuming in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 7: Morning fog added to the difficulties of Valleyites Saturday as water-logging following late Thursday evening snowfall continued to hinder normal life in most parts of the Valley.
Meanwhile, the 300km Srinagar-Jammu highway—arterial link connecting valley with rest of the world—was opened for two-way traffic, official sources said.
Poor visibility due to dense fog halted normal life with motorists keeping headlights of their vehicles on to ply on streets across the valley for better part of the morning.
Many people preferred to remain indoors due to the fog and the cold weather conditions prevalent across the state.
Meanwhile, as the snow started melting, people in most parts of the valley were left to fight water-logging, at many places.
Despite the claims of state administration to have pressed into service all the de-watering pumps besides utilizing services of fire-service departments, problems of water-logging continued to pour-in from various parts of the valley.
Reports said that the lanes and by-lanes across the city and other district headquarters are under water, slowing down the vehicular and pedestrian movement.
A report from the civil line areas of the Srinagar including Natipora, Bagh-e-Mahtab, Gulshan Nagar, Chanapora, Rajbagh said that the areas are inundated with the snow-melt water, much to inconvenience of the residents.
A report from the downtown of the city said that most stretches of the Nalamar road, post-office lane Lal Bazar, Hajibagh, Bachipora and several areas of the Soura were still under the water.
"We have pressed into service all the dewatering pumps and sought services of fire-service department to clear the waters," head of the state's disaster management and the officer on special duty with the divisional commissioner, Aamir Ali, told Press Bureau of India.
He said that about 68 dewatering pumps, apart from the 35 mobile pumps were pressed into use to get the water out from the streets.
While the upper reaches of the valley received heavy snowfall, the summer capital and other plains experienced the season's second snowfall ranging between four inches to 1ft Thursday evening.
Baramulla, Bandipore and frontier Kupwara districts in North Kashmir received fresh snowfall between 4 inches to 4ft. Gulmarg, the world famed skiing resort accumulated about 2.8ft of fresh snowfall while its nearby Sufi Shrine—Baba Reshi—witnessed 2.6ft followed by other close by tourist spot—Tangmarg—with one feet of snow.
Other Baramulla areas including Pattan, 4 inches, Sopore and main town Baramulla, 5 inches, Uri, 6-7 inches and Dangiwachi 7 inches.
The upper reaches of the frontier district of Kupwara witnessed heavy snowfall with Machil, Sadna top amassing over four feet of fresh snow while its plains including the main town received 6-7 inches of snow. Other areas of the district include Handwara received 7 inches, Wilgam 9 inches and Zachaldara 8 inches.
Main town of the Bandipore district witnessed about 7 inches of fresh snowfall while Gurez accumulated about 2-3ft of freshsnow, the officials said.
In South Kashmir, Phalagam—world famous hill resort—received 6-8 inches of snow while other areas Kulgam 2 inches, Damhal Hangipora and Varinag 9 inches, Qazigund 7 inches, Kokernag 1ft, Daksun Anantnag 1.5ft, Keller Pulwama 20 inches, Shopian 10 inches, Tral and Rajpora 4 inches.
Srinagar received 3-4 inches of snowfall and Budgam in central Kashmir received snowfall, ranging from 4 to 14 inches. Ganderbal district area also witnessed moderate to heavy snowfall. Main town received 2-3 inches of snow, its higher reaches, Gund and Kangan witnessed 1ft and 5 inches of snow respectively.
Meanwhile, the bodies of four persons including a police constable Muhammad Majloon son of Abdul Rehman who came under a snow mass near Z-Gali in Machil Sector were yet to be retrieved.
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