Ah, cloudburst? It's a crazy intense rainfall in a short time over a small area. They say Himachal and Uttarakhand get them because of the mountains forcing moist air up suddenly, which is true. But from where I'm standing, rebuilding a culvert for the third time this season, the bigger 'why' is how we've cut every hillside for roads and buildings. The water has nowhere to go but straight down onto us. My specific life now is hauling crushed rock in the rain, thinking of my father's fields—they never flooded like this before all these new hotels went up.
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