|
When Nisarga brought a smile on Mumbai's face, not deaths and
destruction...
| After landfall in Alibaug the cyclone has moved over Nashik and
Pune and is forecast to bring heavy rain and storm in Indore, Ujjain
and other areas in Madhya Pradesh over the next few days.
|
MUMBAI, June 3: Mumbai heaved a sigh of relief, and then smiled from ear to
ear, as a ferocious Nisarga spared the city of massive deaths and destruction,
a devastation forecast as unseen in a century, and preferred Alibaug to make
a landfall, a 100 km short to the south, at 1 pm on Wednesday.
After hitting coastal Alibaug in Raigad district, a weakened cyclone moved
north-east over Nashik, Pune and Ahmednagar, uprooting trees, electric poles
and causing floods along its path. Power supply in the four districts was disrupted.
The Mumbai airport which was closed in the morning following the cyclone alert
re-opened at 6 pm as the weatherman gave clearance after the cyclone skipped
the city. All airlines had cancelled flights since Wednesday morning. Flights
resumed in the evening.
Four people died and a few others suffered injuries in mishaps caused by the
storm. In Alibaug, a 58-year old man died when an electric pole fell on him.
Two persons died when the roofs of their houses were blown away by the storm.
A girl died when a tree fell on her.
The cyclone skipped Mumbai city. The storm, described as a first on the western
coast in a hundred years, did not wreak so much of havoc as feared earlier.
"There was a slight change of direction towards north-eastwards which meant
the impact of the cyclone on Mumbai was less severe than originally expected,"
said the IMD.
In neighbouring Gujarat the cyclone did not wreak any substantial damage.
It brought rain to Valsad. Sixty three thousand people were evacuated from eight
coastal districts on Tuesday in preparation to face the cyclone. Eighteen NDRF
and six SDRF teams had been kept in position for anticipated rescue operations.
The cyclone has moved over Khandwa, Khargone and Burhanpur districts early
Thursday. Indore and Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh have been alerted to be prepared
as the cyclone will hit the State on Thursday. These districts will experience
heavy rain and lightning for the next few days.
|
|
|
Previous Files
|
|
ARCHIVES
|
|
|
Visit Indian Travel Sites
Goa,
Kerala,
Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh,
Delhi,
Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh,
Himachal Pradesh,
Assam,
Sikkim,
Karnataka,
Madhya Pradesh,
Jammu & Kashmir
Gujarat
Puducherry
|
|
|
|
Neighbours Calling
Bhutan
Nepal
Malaysia
Dubai
|
|
|
|
|
|