A powerful tropical storm brought widespread devastation to India and neighboring Pakistan after it made landfall Thursday, but mass evacuations appeared to have saved lives.
, delivering heavy downpours and strong winds there and along the southwest coast of neighboring Pakistan, but mass evacuations and elaborate preparations in both the countries appeared on Friday to have saved lives.
A drone view of a flooded village in Mokhada, in the western state of Gujarat, India, after Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall, June 16, 2023."Early identification of areas that were likely to be impacted by the cyclone and timely evacuation of people living within 10 km of the coasts are the biggest reasons [for the low number of casualties]," Kamal Dayani, a senior government official in Gujarat, told the Reuters news agency.
Biparjoy, which means"disaster" in the Bengali language, made landfall Thursday evening in India's port city of Jakhau as the equivalent of a Category-3 hurricane. While the toll in human lives was relatively low for a major storm, the cyclone still carved a path of destruction as churned inland over the course of the night, dropping a huge amount of rain and packing winds that gusted up to 86 miles per hour.
More than 500 houses were damaged and about 800 trees were uprooted, many of which blocked traffic on at least two state highways for hours Friday morning. Dozens of disaster response teams and hundreds of teams of road and power company personnel were working Friday to reopen roads and restore electricity to about 1,000 households. The full extent of the damage remained unclear.
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