This is so different from 20 years ago, when a fearsome cyclone blasted into this same area and obliterated villages, killing thousands.

Cyclone Fani will be the fourth storm to hit the country's east coast in the last three decades. It Will Be A Long Answer :-) This Is What Odisha Has Done Under The Leadership Of Shri. We are currently bearing the brunt of Cyclone Fani. The storm also hit neighboring Bangladesh, but there, too, large numbers of casualties were avoided by evacuating more than one million people to shelters… Even after 48 hours the city is in dark. How do you save a million people from a cyclone? The wind speed was phenomenal , comparable to the super cyclone of 1999.

And one of the biggest storms in years was bearing down on Odisha, one of India’s poorest states, where millions of people live cheek by jowl in a low-lying coastal area in mud-and-stick shacks. But government authorities in Odisha, along India’s eastern flank, hardly stood […] BHUBANESWAR, India — Flights were canceled. This is so different from 20 years ago, when a fearsome cyclone blasted into this same area and obliterated villages, killing thousands. Many people were caught flat-footed in their homes. Many people were caught flat-footed in their homes. I am a resident of Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, India . This is so different from 20 years ago, when a fearsome cyclone blasted into this same area and obliterated villages, killing thousands.

The storm also hit neighboring Bangladesh, but there, too, large numbers of casualties were avoided by evacuating more than one million people to shelters. The average income is less than $5 a day. The worst one, a super cyclone had hit the state in 1999, killing more than 15,000 people, with most of the casualty being reported from Odisha. But thanks to proactive steps of the govt agencies the casualty number is much less than that of '99s.

The state of Odisha has around 46 million people, about the population of Spain, but many times poorer. The storm also hit neighboring Bangladesh, but there, too, large numbers of casualties were avoided by evacuating more than one million people to shelters. The majority of people are farmers. Naveen Pattnaik Ji . Odisha has the answer. Train service was out.