The first named storm of the 2008 North Indian cyclone season, Cyclone Nargis striked a powerful blow on May 2, 2008; one that the people of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), will yet to disregard. With at least 22,500 fatalities, the tropical cyclone caused catastrophic destruction with a further 41,000 people still missing. A recent government estimate put the number of deaths at 70,000, with some non-governmental organizations estimating that the final toll will be over 100,000. Foreign aid workers concluded further, that 2 to 3 million are homeless, in the worst disaster in Burma’s history, comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Myanmar Cyclone Aftermath Residents queue to get drinking water in Yangon on May 5, 2008. People of the main city, Yangon, were busy Monday clearing roads blocked by fallen trees and queuing to collect water from neighbours with private wells, as supplies were cut by the storm. Aid agencies Monday rushed emergency food and water into Myanmar after a cyclone tore into the southwest of the impoverished nation, killing more than 350 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. -The Seattle Times
Andrew Kirkwood, country director of the British charity Save The Children, stated: "We're looking at 50,000 dead and millions of homeless, I'd characterise it as unprecedented in the history of Burma and on an order of magnitude with the effect of the tsunami on individual countries. There might well be more dead than the tsunami caused in Sri Lanka.” Luckily, the cyclone moved ashore in the Ayeyarwady Division of Burma near peak intensity and, after passing near the major city of Yangon (Rangoon), the storm gradually weakened until dissipating near the border of Burma and Thailand.
An Al Jazeera correspondent reports from inside Myanmar:
_______________ Overall Correspondence: - This Is Your Brain On Drugs This is an unfortunate play on natural causes that this little village should have been a little more conscious of. I realize that we're dealing with a low economic region but you’d think if nothing else, they’d expend for some shovels to make for a cellar, no? Obviously Hurrican Katrina was no picnic for America but learning from our mistakes seems to go in a promising direction. It's a tragedy but let's try to prevent the high body count next time with a little underground assembly.
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The first named storm of the 2008 North Indian cyclone season, Cyclone Nargis striked a powerful blow on May 2, 2008; one that the people of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), will yet to disregard. With at least 22,500 fatalities, the tropical cyclone caused catastrophic destruction with a further 41,000 people still missing. A recent government estimate put the number of deaths at 70,000, with some non-governmental organizations estimating that the final toll will be over 100,000. Foreign aid workers concluded further, that 2 to 3 million are homeless, in the worst disaster in Burma’s history, comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Myanmar Cyclone Aftermath Residents queue to get drinking water in Yangon on May 5, 2008. People of the main city, Yangon, were busy Monday clearing roads blocked by fallen trees and queuing to collect water from neighbours with private wells, as supplies were cut by the storm. Aid agencies Monday rushed emergency food and water into Myanmar after a cyclone tore into the southwest of the impoverished nation, killing more than 350 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. -The Seattle Times
Andrew Kirkwood, country director of the British charity Save The Children, stated: "We're looking at 50,000 dead and millions of homeless, I'd characterise it as unprecedented in the history of Burma and on an order of magnitude with the effect of the tsunami on individual countries. There might well be more dead than the tsunami caused in Sri Lanka.” Luckily, the cyclone moved ashore in the Ayeyarwady Division of Burma near peak intensity and, after passing near the major city of Yangon (Rangoon), the storm gradually weakened until dissipating near the border of Burma and Thailand.
An Al Jazeera correspondent reports from inside Myanmar:
_______________ Overall Correspondence: - This Is Your Brain On Drugs This is an unfortunate play on natural causes that this little village should have been a little more conscious of. I realize that we're dealing with a low economic region but you’d think if nothing else, they’d expend for some shovels to make for a cellar, no? Obviously Hurrican Katrina was no picnic for America but learning from our mistakes seems to go in a promising direction. It's a tragedy but let's try to prevent the high body count next time with a little underground assembly.
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The first named storm of the 2008 North Indian cyclone season, Cyclone Nargis striked a powerful blow on May 2, 2008; one that the people of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), will yet to disregard. With at least 22,500 fatalities, the tropical cyclone caused catastrophic destruction with a further 41,000 people still missing. A recent government estimate put the number of deaths at 70,000, with some non-governmental organizations estimating that the final toll will be over 100,000. Foreign aid workers concluded further, that 2 to 3 million are homeless, in the worst disaster in Burma’s history, comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Myanmar Cyclone Aftermath
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