More Documentary Evidence about Fall of Snakes and Stones in Kashmir!

A recent write-up, published by Kashmir Rechords under the title “When Snakes, Stones Snowed in Kashmir’ has generated a lot of interest on various social-media platforms.  Most of the esteemed readers of Kashmir Rechords have expressed their desire to know more about this unprecedented incident, something they had never heard of.  For majority of the readers it was a news of the century for them!
While contents of both the files have already been put into public domain, Kashmir Rechords is publishing more documentary evidence to bring home the point that such incidents had really happened more than 100 years ago and are well-documented.
File noting : Fall of Stones from the Heaven
A picture of one such heavy stone that had reportedly come down with snowflakes in 1912 and is currently in possession of Archaeology Department has also been procured for the benefit of our readers.
A Stone that came down with snowflakes in 1912
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  • We have heard actual raining of cats and dogs in England along with rain may be in a storm which gave birth to the phrase "raining in dogs and cats" Another incident recorded in Kashmir history is falling of a slab of ice during a snowfall causing a flood on it's melting. Raining in stones and snakes can be coined for forecasting of s catastrophe.

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