India and Bangladesh evacuate millions from coasts ahead of super cyclone

This photograph provided by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) force shows NDRF personal warning people on the Bay of Bengal coast about Cyclone Amphan at Namkhana, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. The powerful cyclone was moving toward India and Bangladesh on Tuesday as authorities tried to evacuate millions of people while maintaining social distancing.
This photograph provided by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) force shows NDRF personal warning people on the Bay of Bengal coast about Cyclone Amphan at Namkhana, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. The powerful cyclone was moving toward India and Bangladesh on Tuesday as authorities tried to evacuate millions of people while maintaining social distancing.(AP)


Millions of people are being evacuated from coastal areas in India and Bangladesh as a super cyclone bears down on the region.
Cyclone Amphan is expected to make landfall in both countries, with wind gusts of up to 115mph, the equivalent of a category 3 Atlantic hurricane, on Wednesday. It’s expected to hit near the Indian city of Kolkata which has a population of more than 14 million people.
The cyclone, which became the strongest storm ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal on Monday night, is feared to be the deadliest storm since Cyclone Sidr killed about 3,500 people in 2007. Indian officials are predicting waters surges between 10 and 16 feet.
However, the coronavirus outbreak is making the evacuation process more difficult. Trains have been cancelled in India as migrant workers have fled cities to return to their villages to escape the pandemic. Some areas have barred migrant workers from returning until after the storm passes.


Both countries are facing a shortage of available shelters to place evacuated people because many existing shelters are being used to quarantine people with coronavirus.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, India has surpassed 100,000 coronavirus infections while Bangladesh has recorded over 23,000.

3 comments:

  1. Since when is a cat. 3 hurricane a 'super cyclone'? People in Florida would stay home for a cat 3 storm unless they were directly on the coast.

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  2. There people, in India is "alot". It is a town. "Alot" is not to be used in a sentence to describe many or multiples of something. That would be "a lot". Then you have "allot" which is to apportion something, generally money.

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  3. So much for social distancing as they all crowd inland to escape a medium strength storm. But, hey, the government says it's a super storm so everyone is mandated to believe.

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