Tuesday 13 December 2016

Cyclone Vardah that hit the Tamil Nadu capital on Monday evening.

Cyclone Vardah that hit the Tamil Nadu capital on Monday evening h has claimed ten lives. Thousands of people were evacuated as roaring winds, clocking speeds sof over 100 km an hour, uprooted trees, tore off hoardings and toppled Cars.
The National Disaster Management
Authority (NDMA) has said in its report that the cyclone h has claimed 10 lives in Tamil Nadu including four in Chennai,
two in Kancheepuram, two in
Tiruvallur, one in Villupuram s and one in Nagapattinam.
The state g government thas announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to the next of the kin of those killed in Vardah.
As Chenna
i came in the eye of a massive cyclonic storm, R Regional Meteorological Department (MET) d department kept sending warnings on the speed of the stormy winds, which started at 30-45 kmph in the morning and went up to 120 kmph as the eye of Vardah e finally crossed Chennai between 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm. About 20 cm a rainfall was reported. About 8,000 people from low-lying areas in north Chennai, P Pazhaverkadu in Tiruvallur district and villages off Mamallapuram, in Kanchipuram a district were safely evacuated to 95 relief shelters, officials said. In Andhra
Pradesh, over 9,400 people living along the Bay o of Bengal |were evacuated to relief camps amid heavy rain.

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