Otober 11 and october 12 2014 Hud hud a major natural disaster which occured in india a cyclone with heavy winds considered to be a major natural disaster in the recent past. Here are a few devastating pictures of the cyclone.. .
After ducking the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami and the 1977 cyclone, the "City of Destiny" sadly had its date with disaster on Sunday when a very severe cyclonic storm Hudhud tore through the city, unleashing widespread destruction and bringing the otherwise bustling city of nearly 20 lakh people to a grinding halt.
The cyclone, that made landfall in the Port City around noon, sent hoardings and tin roofs flying like saucers, shattered windows leaving the streets littered with glass shreds, toppled over statues of leaders in many places as well as landmarks like the replica of the navy airplane on RK Beach. Scores of electricity and telephone poles were knocked down and thousands of trees uprooted as strong gales accompanied by heavy rainfall lashed the city right from Sunday morning to evening.
Essential services were disrupted and people remained indoors to escape nature's fury.
With winds touching a speed of around 180-195kmph during landfall, waves as high as two to three metres surged along the Beach Road. In fact, such was Hudhud's fury that even chief minister dared not enter the Port City and had to it cool his heels at Gannavaram awaiting the clearance of roadblocks like uprooted trees and collapsed walls on NH-16 to proceed to Vizag.
Hudhud also left former ambassador to Philippines, Amit Dasgupta, who presently resides in Vizag and has seen much worse tropical storms in Manila, rattled. "Cyclone Hudhud - far worse than anything I have experienced in Manila. Much of the garden is airborne and trees broken in half like match-sticks!" Dasgupta posted on his Facebook wall early on Sunday morning, before his network crashed.
In fact, it is perhaps for the first time since the India Meteorological Department (IMD) was set up in 1891, that the Port City has found itself in the eye of such a storm. Even Phailin whizzed past the city on October 12 last year without so much as a whimper. And while Met experts had been confident of the city's unique topography protecting it yet again, Hudhud's ferocity left them flummoxed.
The destruction started hours before the landfall forcing denizens to remain indoors. Many of them could not come out for hours. Vizag being a low-lying area flooding is a distinct possibility. "It is impossible to negotiate the city with uprooted tress and telephone cables blocking ways. It is very scary," said K S Narayana, a builder.
This October 12, 2014, satellite image from Nasa shows Cyclone Hudhud over India's eastern coast.
YK Reddy, director in charge, IMD Hyderabad, said: "Though Vizag does not witness too many cyclones, no topography can actually protect a place from cyclone. Even Vizag has only hills and hillocks, which can only protect it from a storm surge but not a cyclone with a height of roughly 10km. It may have been the local atmospheric conditions that attracted the cyclone towards Vizag."
With the discom Eastern Power Distribution Corporation of AP Ltd switching off power in the wee hours of Sunday as a precautionary measure, the city was plunged into darkness and by afternoon telecom links snapped as networks crashed and landline and cell phones blipped off.
All flights in and out of Vizag were suspended on Sunday due to the hostile weather conditions that reduced visibility to near zero and destroyed the innards of the airport. Several trains passing through the city too were cancelled and road transport too came to a grinding halt as the National Highway-16 connecting Chennai to Kolkata and passing through the Port City was shut down from Saturday evening and people were advised not to venture out.
Heres a video clipping of the major cyclone which broke out in vishakapatnam and parts of odisha...
Operations at the crucial Eastern Naval Command were hit, with damage to
the naval base, naval air base INS Dega and residential quarters at
Dolphin Nose hill. According to naval officials, 12 ships were on
stand-by for evacuation and relief operations. Operations at ports like
Visakhapatnam Port, Gangavaram Port and PSUs like Rashtriya Ispat Nigam
Ltd and Hindustan Shipyard Ltd too were suspended and property in these
places damaged by the ravaging storm.
"This is the biggest disaster to have ever hit Vizag. The blasting sounds of the wind are very scary. God knows how we will survive this," said Kala Kumari, her voice shaking tremulously before the eye of the storm hit the city.
"Torrential rain has been pounding the city right from wee hours of Sunday. The ferocious winds have blown off all the windows of my house. I felt my building shaking a couple of times," a panicked M Kumar, who lives on the beach off Yendada, told TOI just before his cellphone conked out in the morning.
A fallen mobile tower in Visakhapatnam after Cyclone Hudhud passed through the city. (TOI photo)
"The situation in Vizag is very serious. Telecommunications have been completely disrupted, impacting even our control room. Panicked people are calling up to find out if they have to be evacuated," K Hymavathi, AP special commissioner for disaster management, told reporters.
While officials were unable to come out with a picture of the damages in the Port City, they said it would take weeks for Andhra Pradesh's largest city to get back on its feet after the unprecedented blow.
Every body was moved by the devastation and offered a helping hand to vishakapatnam
After the deadly cyclone the complete city came to a halt and petrol was being blacked due to lack of stock and open petrol pumps. Complete city snetworks came to a a halt even atm centres ran out of cash...
Ill tell you how to act when natural disasters strike in my next note. But please do extend a helping hand in any form to the chief minister relief fund ...Every indian or any one around the globe who has a Generous and humble heart help the needy and dont be greedy....
love & regards
author
V.Mohan krishna (MA) (MOk$H)
After ducking the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami and the 1977 cyclone, the "City of Destiny" sadly had its date with disaster on Sunday when a very severe cyclonic storm Hudhud tore through the city, unleashing widespread destruction and bringing the otherwise bustling city of nearly 20 lakh people to a grinding halt.
The cyclone, that made landfall in the Port City around noon, sent hoardings and tin roofs flying like saucers, shattered windows leaving the streets littered with glass shreds, toppled over statues of leaders in many places as well as landmarks like the replica of the navy airplane on RK Beach. Scores of electricity and telephone poles were knocked down and thousands of trees uprooted as strong gales accompanied by heavy rainfall lashed the city right from Sunday morning to evening.
Essential services were disrupted and people remained indoors to escape nature's fury.
With winds touching a speed of around 180-195kmph during landfall, waves as high as two to three metres surged along the Beach Road. In fact, such was Hudhud's fury that even chief minister dared not enter the Port City and had to it cool his heels at Gannavaram awaiting the clearance of roadblocks like uprooted trees and collapsed walls on NH-16 to proceed to Vizag.
Hudhud also left former ambassador to Philippines, Amit Dasgupta, who presently resides in Vizag and has seen much worse tropical storms in Manila, rattled. "Cyclone Hudhud - far worse than anything I have experienced in Manila. Much of the garden is airborne and trees broken in half like match-sticks!" Dasgupta posted on his Facebook wall early on Sunday morning, before his network crashed.
In fact, it is perhaps for the first time since the India Meteorological Department (IMD) was set up in 1891, that the Port City has found itself in the eye of such a storm. Even Phailin whizzed past the city on October 12 last year without so much as a whimper. And while Met experts had been confident of the city's unique topography protecting it yet again, Hudhud's ferocity left them flummoxed.
The destruction started hours before the landfall forcing denizens to remain indoors. Many of them could not come out for hours. Vizag being a low-lying area flooding is a distinct possibility. "It is impossible to negotiate the city with uprooted tress and telephone cables blocking ways. It is very scary," said K S Narayana, a builder.
This October 12, 2014, satellite image from Nasa shows Cyclone Hudhud over India's eastern coast.
YK Reddy, director in charge, IMD Hyderabad, said: "Though Vizag does not witness too many cyclones, no topography can actually protect a place from cyclone. Even Vizag has only hills and hillocks, which can only protect it from a storm surge but not a cyclone with a height of roughly 10km. It may have been the local atmospheric conditions that attracted the cyclone towards Vizag."
With the discom Eastern Power Distribution Corporation of AP Ltd switching off power in the wee hours of Sunday as a precautionary measure, the city was plunged into darkness and by afternoon telecom links snapped as networks crashed and landline and cell phones blipped off.
All flights in and out of Vizag were suspended on Sunday due to the hostile weather conditions that reduced visibility to near zero and destroyed the innards of the airport. Several trains passing through the city too were cancelled and road transport too came to a grinding halt as the National Highway-16 connecting Chennai to Kolkata and passing through the Port City was shut down from Saturday evening and people were advised not to venture out.
Heres a video clipping of the major cyclone which broke out in vishakapatnam and parts of odisha...
"This is the biggest disaster to have ever hit Vizag. The blasting sounds of the wind are very scary. God knows how we will survive this," said Kala Kumari, her voice shaking tremulously before the eye of the storm hit the city.
"Torrential rain has been pounding the city right from wee hours of Sunday. The ferocious winds have blown off all the windows of my house. I felt my building shaking a couple of times," a panicked M Kumar, who lives on the beach off Yendada, told TOI just before his cellphone conked out in the morning.
A fallen mobile tower in Visakhapatnam after Cyclone Hudhud passed through the city. (TOI photo)
"The situation in Vizag is very serious. Telecommunications have been completely disrupted, impacting even our control room. Panicked people are calling up to find out if they have to be evacuated," K Hymavathi, AP special commissioner for disaster management, told reporters.
While officials were unable to come out with a picture of the damages in the Port City, they said it would take weeks for Andhra Pradesh's largest city to get back on its feet after the unprecedented blow.
Every body was moved by the devastation and offered a helping hand to vishakapatnam
120mph cyclone slams into India killing 24, causing massive flooding and leaving swathe of destruction in its wake
- Cyclone Hudhud had 120mph winds when it made landfall in southern India after sweeping through the Bay of Bengal
- At least 400,000 residents were forced to flee their homes in the coastal states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa
- Today government workers began clearing up debris including sign boards and corrugated iron roofs
- Huge lines were seen at the few petrol stations which reopened after a two-day closure
- Schools and many offices were closed due to poor telecoms and no power for the second day in a row
- Hudhud has weakened into a deep depression expected to dump heavy rains in northern and north-eastern India
The death
toll from a powerful cyclone which battered India's eastern coastline
rose to 24 today, as the storm weakened and moved inland, leaving a
swathe of destruction and triggering fears heavy rains would bring flash
floods.
Packing
wind speeds of over 120 mph, Cyclone Hudhud hammered the coasts of
Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states on Sunday, forcing tens of thousands of
coastal inhabitants to seek safety in storm shelters.
In
the port city of Visakhapatnam, home to two million people, government
workers began removing uprooted trees which had blocked roads, restoring
snapped power and telecoms lines and clearing up debris including sign
boards and corrugated iron roofs ripped off buildings by the strong gust
After the deadly cyclone the complete city came to a halt and petrol was being blacked due to lack of stock and open petrol pumps. Complete city snetworks came to a a halt even atm centres ran out of cash...
Officials in
Andhra Pradesh, which reported 21 deaths, said initial surveys found
that thousands of houses had been damaged and there was widespread
destruction to banana, sugarcane and rice crops in the districts of
Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam, East Godavari and Vijaynagaram.
Tens
of thousands of people spent a third night in cyclone shelters due to
damage to their home or a lack of food or clean drinking water in their
villages, officials said.
Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu, who visited
Visakhapatnam on Monday, said he was fully confident that response to
the disaster would be quick.
'Visakhapatnam is a place I like very much. But, it is painful to see the city this way today,' Naidu told reporters.
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi said he would visit the area on Tuesday. 'Have
been constantly taking updates on Cyclone Hudhud ... Will visit
Visakhapatnam tomorrow and take stock of the situation,' Modi tweeted.
Blowy: An Indian man walks in gusty winds on India's eastern coast near Gopalpur in south Orissa
Shelter: A man covers his face as wind
blows dust near a beach in Gopalpur in Ganjam district in the eastern
Indian state of Odisha
A fisherman walks
near the anchored fishing boats as strong winds blow a day after a
powerful cyclone pounded the Bay of Bengal coast
Authorities
in Visakhapatnam, locally known as Vizag, said 19 helicopters had been
dispatched to drop food and water packets to affected villages. Four
naval ships were also being readied to sail to the coast, carrying
relief material for 5,000 people, and four more ships were on standby if
required.
The
relatively low death toll reported so far followed an operation to
evacuate more than 150,000 people to minimise the risk to lives from
Hudhud - similar in size and power to cyclone Phailin that struck the
area exactly a year ago.
According
to India's weather office, Hudhud has weakened into a deep depression
but is expected to dump heavy rains in northern and northeastern India
and, eventually, snow when it reaches the Himalayan mountains.
Aid
workers warned the rains were likely to inundate large tracts of
farmland, comparing it to Phailin's incessant rains last year which
caused major rivers and tributaries to overflow, submerging villages and
stranding hundreds of thousands of people for days after the cyclone
had passed.
In
the coastal fishing village of Mangamaripeta, 15 miles from
Visakhapatnam, where scores of thatched homes had been swept away by
storm surges, inhabitants waited for aid.
'We
do not know how we manage for the next few days,' said N. Bangaramma,
housewife and mother of three. 'Our house was damaged. Whatever we had
was washed away.'
A man braces himself against strong winds as he walks along a beach in Gopalpur, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa on Sunday
An elderly woman is carried by two men to a shelter after she was forced to flee her home in Andhra Pradesh ahead of the cyclone
Three men run for shelter as heavy rain and wind gusts rip through the Bay of Bengal coast in Orissa on Sunday
A woman, centre, is nearly swept out
to sea after she is knocked over by a wave while walking along the
coast. A man jumps in to help
television footage from Visakhapatnam showed downed electrical poles,
uprooted trees and massive debris strewn in the streets. Electricity
lines were disconnected in parts of Andhra Pradesh to avoid
electrocutions, said Arvind Kumar, a relief and rescue official.
Four
districts in Andhra Pradesh that are home to more than 14 million
people - Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari -
were expected to be worst hit, including about 350 coastal villages.
Andhra
Pradesh's chief minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, said that while the
early evacuations had saved lives, the cyclone caused 'huge damage' to
buildings and crops in the coastal districts.
The cyclone's wind speed dipped to about 100mph, but was expected to pick up later on Sunday. Above, Visakhapatnam is hit
In Visakhapatnam, pictured above,
nearly every road is littered with broken glass and uprooted trees -
brought down in strong winds
Two young girls carry fresh water away from the town of Gopalpur as policemen arrive to evacuate residents ahead of the cyclone
A portion of a coastal road is seen washed away after being battered by Cyclone Hudhud when it made landfall on Sunday
A man walks along a sodden dirt road as strong winds strike a coastal town in the southern Indian state of Orissa
Though the cyclone was expected to
weaken over the weekend, heavy rain was expected to lash Orissa,
pictured above, for three days
A young boy sits in a plastic bucket
near his house on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, which was struck by
Cyclone Hudhud on Sunday
Grewal
said 30 diving and 20 rescue teams were on standby. Hundreds of
rescuers from India's National Disaster Response Force were also spread
out across Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.
India's
meteorological department said Sunday afternoon that the cyclone would
weaken over the next 12 hours, with wind speeds gradually decreasing.
But
heavy rain was expected to lash Andhra Pradesh and Orissa for another
three days. Other parts of central and northeastern India were also
expected to see heavy rain.
The
Indian Ocean is a cyclone hot spot. Of the 35 deadliest storms in
recorded history, 27 have come through the Bay of Bengal - and have
landed in either India or Bangladesh. In 1999, a cyclone devastated
Orissa's coastline and killed at least 10,000 people.
Desperate to stay dry, a man covers himself with a cloth as he walks along the Bay of Bengal coast, where waves washed up debris
Huge waves batter the coastline of Visakhapatnam, where one man was killed on Sunday when a wall collapsed
Trees are blown over as 120mph winds sweep through Visakhapatnam on Sunday, threatening to bring down the city's power lines
The cyclone has left behind a path of destruction. Above, a metal barrier lies strewn across a road in Visakhapatnam on Sunday
love & regards
author
V.Mohan krishna (MA) (MOk$H)
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