TC SIDR Aftermath : Photos,Videos and News

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#41 Postby Coredesat » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:12 pm

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#42 Postby Cyclenall » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:12 pm

Derek Ortt wrote:major difference in storms pre and post monsoon I was told b a PhD student from India that shares the same office as I do.

Premonsoon storms are usually far less deadly than post monsoon. The reason is that post monsoon, the rivers are full from the monsoon rains

That's pretty important to remember in the future. I still think 111 dead is extremely low for that 1997 storm because of where it hit and strength. Maybe it was small?
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#43 Postby HurricaneBill » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:45 pm

Cyclenall wrote: That's pretty important to remember in the future. I still think 111 dead is extremely low for that 1997 storm because of where it hit and strength. Maybe it was small?


Or maybe Bangladesh has been making lots of effort to reduce cyclone deaths.
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#44 Postby Category 5 » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:53 pm

Just for the record, what is the correct pronounciation for Sidr?
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#45 Postby Coredesat » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:30 pm

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#46 Postby HURAKAN » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:31 pm

Some photos of Dhaka I found in Google Earth:

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There's a lot more pictures in Google Earth.
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#47 Postby kd_black » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:32 pm

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#48 Postby Derek Ortt » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:33 pm

Dhaka probably experienced winds similar to what Miami experienced during Wilma based upon the track and estimated intensity.

Not to mention a very high tidal surge
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#49 Postby Ptarmigan » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:15 am

Derek Ortt wrote:it took more than 3 weeks for the surge to recede in 1991, and this surge was likely higher

it will likely take months to know th true extent of this storm


Any reasons for that? I wonder how long it took for the surge to recede following Katrina?
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#50 Postby Ptarmigan » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:18 am

Derek Ortt wrote:major difference in storms pre and post monsoon I was told b a PhD student from India that shares the same office as I do.

Premonsoon storms are usually far less deadly than post monsoon. The reason is that post monsoon, the rivers are full from the monsoon rains


Makes sense to me. Lots of train means rivers full of water. Monsoons dump a lot of rain. Cherrapunji gets 450 inches of rain a year. In one month they got 366 inches of rain which in the same time got over 1,000 inches of rain!

Cherrapunji
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#51 Postby Derek Ortt » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:12 am

now up to 150

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iub ... c7ejsIBqRA

the bad news, those are deaths from WIND. The water deaths have yet to be calculated
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#52 Postby badkhan » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:32 am

Category 5 wrote:Just for the record, what is the correct pronounciation for Sidr?


its pronounced like seether but with an "i" sound instead of the "ee" sound.
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#53 Postby CrazyC83 » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:51 am

Derek Ortt wrote:now up to 150

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iub ... c7ejsIBqRA

the bad news, those are deaths from WIND. The water deaths have yet to be calculated


Officials probably can't even get to those areas as chances are they are still flooded. This is just like Katrina, except involving a much poorer country...
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#54 Postby CrazyC83 » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:52 am

Death toll up to 242:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/11/1 ... ml?ref=rss

This is a sick feeling that you know it is going to rise to incredible levels. Three cities with a combined population over 700,000 (about 1.5 times that of the city of New Orleans) were completely inundated by the storm surge.
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#55 Postby Chacor » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:18 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7097678.stm

Three villages reported to have been wiped out entirely.
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#56 Postby Crostorm » Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:12 am

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#57 Postby cycloneye » Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:53 am

Death Toll up to 500:

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Photo of a woman that lost her home.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/1 ... index.html
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#58 Postby badkhan » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:17 am

The word Sidr is an Arabic name of the tree Ziziphus spina-christi of the Ziziphus family.
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#59 Postby Crostorm » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:48 am

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#60 Postby Derek Ortt » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:09 am

reports of many more dead, not yet confirmed though

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00 ... 162126.htm

Hundreds of bodies seen and only about 140 official deaths in a village
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