00:00Cyclone Dana hit India's eastern coast on Friday, uprooting trees, snapping power lines
00:09and flooding some areas. Cyclone Dana made landfall in Odisha state around midnight,
00:15with wind speeds of 100 to 110 kilometers per hour, gusting up to 75 miles per hour,
00:22weakened into a cyclonic storm by forenoon.
00:27There has been a lot of damage in the cyclone.
00:30Farmers have not suffered much damage.
00:33Now is the time for farming.
00:35There is no electricity since two or three days.
00:38Trees and grass have been damaged.
00:41There has been a lot of farming.
00:44There are still many families in water houses.
00:46They are not able to come out.
00:48Water had also come from the sea.
00:50Odisha had closed schools, suspended flights to and from its capital city of Bhubaneswar
00:56until Friday morning, and evacuated more than half a million people in anticipation of the storm.
01:02Heavy rainfall also lashed parts of the neighboring state of West Bengal
01:07and, accompanied by a surge in the seawater, left low-lying areas inundated,
01:12damaging the standing paddy crop that was almost ready for harvest in some fields.
01:17The wind is very strong.
01:20Rainfall is continuing.
01:22We cannot bring big vehicles to the villages that are inundated.
01:27The trees are not yet dry.
01:29They are wet, so it is challenging to cut them.
01:32Authorities said no deaths or injuries were reported.
Comments