Powerful Cyclone Mocha floods streets, cuts communications in western Myanmar, at least 3 killed
Local people walk past damaged buildings after Cyclone Mocha in Sittwe township, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Monday, May 15, 2023. Rescuers on Monday evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 meters deep along western Myanmar's coast after the powerful cyclone injured hundreds and cut off communications. – Rescuers on Monday evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.
“After 4 p.m. yesterday, the storm weakened a bit, but the water did not fall back. Most of them sat on the roof and at the high places of their houses the whole night. The wind blew all night,” the rescue group leader said. Mocha made landfall near Sittwe township with winds blowing up to 209 kilometers per hour, Myanmar’s Meteorological Department said. By midday Monday, it had weakened to a tropical depression, according to the India Meteorological Department.High winds crumpled cell phone towers, but in videos collected by local media before communications were lost, deep water raced through streets and wind blew off roofs.
Mocha largely spared the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar, which initially had been in the storm's predicted path. Authorities hadAbout a dozen people were injured on Saint Martin’s Island, while some 300 homes were either destroyed or damaged, leading Bengali-language daily Prothom Alo reported. Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones in the Bay of Bengal are becoming more intense more quickly,Climate scientists say cyclones can now retain their energy for many days. Cyclone Amphan in eastern India in 2020 continued to travel over land as a strong cyclone and caused extensive devastation.
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