TC SIDR Aftermath : Photos,Videos and News

[Coredesat]

Death toll up to 26:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... efer=india

[Cyclenall]

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?

[HurricaneBill]

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.

[Category 5]

Just for the record, what is the correct pronounciation for Sidr?

[Coredesat]

Death toll now 41:

http://www.pr-inside.com/powerful-cyclo ... 304228.htm

[HURAKAN]

Some photos of Dhaka I found in Google Earth:









There's a lot more pictures in Google Earth.

[kd_black]

[Derek Ortt]

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

[Ptarmigan]

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?

[Ptarmigan]

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

[Derek Ortt]

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

[badkhan]

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.

[CrazyC83]

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...

[CrazyC83]

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.

[Chacor]

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

Three villages reported to have been wiped out entirely.

[Crostorm]

up to 328 death

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... 9320071116

[cycloneye]

Death Toll up to 500:



Photo of a woman that lost her home.

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

[badkhan]

The word Sidr is an Arabic name of the tree Ziziphus spina-christi of the Ziziphus family.

[Crostorm]

new:629

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/143185.html

[Derek Ortt]

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