TC SIDR Aftermath : Photos,Videos and News

[kd_black]

[CrazyC83]

I can't remember the last time there was a death toll number over 1,000 less than 24 hours after the storm passed...

[shah8]

Saomai has had something like that death totals, unofficially. I'm reasonably sure that the official death total is fiction propagated by the government.
Otherwise, I suppose it would be Hurricane Gordon in 1994, and Hurricane Stan in 2005. Those death totals were pretty quick. Mitch was much slower to get death numbers out.

[Derek Ortt]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw8 ... -_rxiWCAUA

Bangladesh government now expects to find thousands of dead when they do reach the area affected by the tidal surge

[simpleman]

to everyone out there
Thank you all very much . I am from Bangladesh . I did believe in your predictions and
informed all my friends and also a friend in electronic media who in turn used it in their
bulletins . You amazingly are correct . Thanks once again .
death toll may not cross 5000 to the extreme .We have a strong and experienced bureacracy and military along with other civil forces . most of the people were evacuated .
every death is a tragedy . but what really hurt me most was the death of a one day old girl
born that very morning before the storm but died later that night , as their house collapsed ,and
no shelter was available nearby ,and she died due to the cold and rain in her fathers lap .
any way we will rise up to the ocassion and we will march forward with pride and honor .
and to all of you , the worries you had , shows that we may have differences but as a whole as a humanity we do care for each other . we also send a airplane full of materials as a token of our support for the katrina victims . anyway thank you all and may God bless.

[fromBd]

The surge has taken its toll. Reports of bodies floating the river has started coming.

I am having a nasty feeling about this. Just keeping fingers crossed that, the death toll will not rise above 2000, which is also a very very huge loss of human lives.

Let almighty blessed the departed souls.

[Chacor]

Aid workers are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors from a powerful cyclone that ripped through southern and central Bangladesh.

More than 1,000 people are confirmed to have died during the storm, a toll that is expected to rise further.

Cyclone Sidr has destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes.

But access to some of the worst affected areas is difficult with roads blocked by debris and power and phone lines cut.

With a huge relief operation now under way, the true extent of the destruction is expected to become clearer on Saturday, the BBC's Mark Dummett in Dhaka reports.

Military helicopters and ships joined the rescue efforts on Saturday, helping deliver supplies and medical assistance to some of the most remote areas.

"We are expecting that thousands of dead bodies may be found within a few days," Shekhar Chandra Das, deputy head of the government's disaster management office, told AFP.

"We have not been able to collect information about casualties in many remote and impassable places due to the disruption to communications," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7099497.stm



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7099522.stm

[Crostorm]

Hurricane Sidr: Cyclone death toll rises to 1070
Posted on Saturday, November 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

The number of people killed by the cyclone, Sidr, that tore through the country on Thursday run into 1070, according to a government control room opened by the food and disaster management ministry this afternoon.

It said the death toll from the tropical storm rose to 12 in Khulna, 11 in Satkhira, 150 in Bagerhat, 83 in Barisal, 34 in Jhalakathi, 134 in Pirojpur, 275 in Barguna, 23 in Bhola, 249 in Patuakhali, 1 in Laxmipur, 4 in Chandpur, 1 in Chittagong, 1 in Jessore, 10 in Faridpur, 4 in Dhaka, 26 in Gopalganj, 30 in Madaripur, 15 in Shariatpur, 1 in Rajbari, 2 in Narayanganj and 4 in Munshiganj.

http://www.bangladeshnews.com.bd/2007/1 ... s-to-1070/

[cycloneye]

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/

Another site from Bangladesh with plenty of news.They expect the death toll to rise.

[HurricaneRobert]

Thelma's casualties were known pretty quickly. 6,000 to 8,000 were killed by a tropical storm.

[Crostorm]

http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/

another site

[Crostorm]

Official death toll in Bangladesh cyclone rises to 1,723 hundreds more feared dead

http://www.pr-inside.com/official-death ... 306093.htm

[Sanibel]

Notice how few trees are snapped off in those pictures. That's telling you something about the wind levels.

[Derek Ortt]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/1 ... index.html

CNN now reporting 2,000 dead and the figure is expected to rise significantly as they have yet to reach the worst hit areas

[Sanibel]

It will be a sad tally over the next few days as relatives and neighbors figure out who is missing and hasn't returned.

[CrazyC83]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArti ... inent&col=

Death toll now 2,185...if this gets above 3,040 I believe it will be the deadliest storm on the planet this century...

[cycloneye]

ABC photo of hundreds of people waiting for food,cloths and medicines.

[wxman57]

There was an article in the Houston Chronicle today. In the story, the author stated that the storm surge reached as high as 4 feet. Just shows how clueless the media still are:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5309368.html

[Derek Ortt]

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/sout ... d_Roundup_

2388 is now the death toll

[Ptarmigan]

There was an article in the Houston Chronicle today. In the story, the author stated that the storm surge reached as high as 4 feet. Just shows how clueless the media still are:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5309368.html

4 feet is awfully low for a major hurricane storm surge and for that area. The media got it wrong with Katrina.