DANA SCARE BLOWN UP BY IMD'S IMPRECISION
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|October 30, 2024
CYCLONE Dana certainly gave Odisha a scare, leaving about 36 lakh people affected and battering kharif crops over 2.71 lakh acres in five districts along its trail.
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Official records say there was no loss of life. For a perspective, cyclone Fani, which pummelled the state just over five years back, was stronger in intensity and bigger in its socio-economic cost. Over 1.65 crore people were hit by the May 2019 storm that had been categorised an 'extremely severe cyclone' and its damage was pegged at over 29,000 crore.
For a state that has a painful history of natural calamities, thankfully, Dana was not the beast it was projected to be.
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