Heavy Rains Cut off Shimla

Anything to do with Shimla interests me and we havent made it onto the headlines as agressively as we have today ..and what a plot it is!!!

Torrential rains, cloudburst …… just the kind of weather i would love to be in at there! But coming back to the point, massive rainfall resulted in landslides all over the place closing down roads and disrupting the Kalka- Shimla toy train.

Anyone who knows the are would know that there are limited roads leading to Shimla, essentially one and if that gets blocked then one is looking at a total cut off atleast with regard to supplies and daily commodities. Traffic will be restored in about 24 hours or so.

The train station is a different story – the Kalka Shimla line was poised to entered into some kind of a heritaghe status (i forget the exact details) , and i hope this will not hinder it. The train was more of a toruis attraction than a vital transportation line so impact there will be next to none.

The station is the concern. Anyone who has taken this trip would agree with me on the that the stations are some of the cutest one would ever lay eyes on. The degree of the damage would govern whether the restored station retains it British- era charm or turns into a modern , no character , building.

The exact details of this event can be read on any of the news lines.

Cell Phone Cross Connection , Airtel frequency

I was not even aware that this would happen.

Walking back to my car yesterday , speaking to my sister about something and then suddenly out of no-where i could hear these 2 guys chatting away regarding a consignment of furniture to be delivered to Jaipur.

The connection with my sister was totally cut off , and when these 2 finished their conversation then my phone tuned into some one else. I did for a minute think it might have been a police transmission , but then the content obviously did not support that (Not that i have any doubts that our cop’s would be talking about something like this)

Eventually after 3-4 conversations i was finally back in the loop , but this time with some other guy all together..who in this case could talk to me.. really strange..?

I guess the logical explanation would be that someone managed to touch that frequency while i was making the call…. the question is what… CB radio….in India, unheard of.

The second question would be that was i the only one affected or anyone using Airtel at that point / location. I did a google on it but failed to come up with any solid answers , but i spent all of 5 minutes looking so maybe i missed something. Maybe my handset?

Location GK 1 , Time 18:30 Hrs , Provider : Airtel , Handset : 6681, Nokia

Anyone? Hellooooooo?