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Gange has swollen to danger mark dangerous flooding levels, temples have been submerged to their roof-top levels and flood warnings have been issued as the river eternal flowers brown and angry, full and fast - furious too - like a wide ocean in places. Rain in Uttarakhand leads to floods, temples get submerged in Ganga on 28 7 18, river flows fast and furious The Ganges flows well above the danger mark. See the marking on the flood scale. Waters rush past temples, submerging them in their journey. Townships along the banks are threatened. Houses get taken away. And this is not even the infamous flood of Uttarakhand, but a more recent 2018 incident. The monsoons create the Ganga and feed the people of north India, but excess rains also destroy human life and property. Bull dozers set about
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