Cyclone Vayu: Ships deployed for rescue operations on western coast, lakhs of people evacuated
News | June 13, 2019 6:40 ISTCyclone Vayu: Ships deployed for rescue operations on western coast, lakh people evacuated from low-lying areas
Cyclone Vayu: Ships deployed for rescue operations on western coast, lakh people evacuated from low-lying areas
Cyclone Vayu will hit the coast near Veraval in Gujarat Thursday afternoon. While NDRF has pre-positioned 52 teams, Indian Coast Guard, Navy, Army and the Air Force are kept on standby.
Ahead of Cyclone Vayu in Gujarat, the Western Railway has decided to fully cancel operation of 15 mainline trains, while 16 other mainline trains will be short terminated with partial cancellation as a precautionary measure. The move comes as the state management is bracing up to deal with Cyclone Vayu.
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Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) bricks and relief material have been embarked on board nominated ships of the Command and are ready to be deployed at short notice.
The 'very severe cyclonic storm' Vayu is approaching India's western coast with easch passin moment. Cyclone Vayu currently lays centred 470 km from Goa, 240 km from Veraval in Gujarat. India Meterological Department has said that Cyclone Vayu is likely to make landfall between Porbandar and Mahuva in Gujarat on June 13.
Cyclonic Storm Vayu likely to intensify into Severe Cyclonic Storm in next 12 hours
Cyclone Vayu: A deep depression over the Arabian Sea which brewed over the past two days has intensified into a cyclonic storm and is likely to hit the Gujarat coast on June 13 morning, the India Meteorological Department said. Cyclone 'Vayu' is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours.
All flight operations were suspended due to low visibility at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at around 10 p.m. and efforts were on to resume traffic from the alternative runway.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has put Gujarat on alert with likely Cyclone Vayu closing in on the Arabian Sea coast bringing heavy rains and winds sweeping across parts of the state at speed ranging from 75 km per hour to a maximum of 135 km.
Promises of help poured in from the central government as well as international agencies, including the United Nations, for speedy restoration work in cyclone-ravaged Odisha as the state Wednesday estimated a tentative loss of Rs 12,000 crore due to Cyclone Fani.
In his first interview since Cyclone Fani that ravaged the coastal districts killing 41 people, Naveen Patnaik said special category status is the need of the hour due to the massive loss to infrastructure which may stall growth of the state.
Mamata Banerjee is a good political fighter, no doubt. She knows how to respond to political attacks, but in times of natural disaster, when the common man is facing crisis, it is not proper to bring political rivalry to a personal level.
"We have set global standards in saving people's lives, now we should start working for setting global standards in making coastal Odisha disaster resilient," said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
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Train services on the mainline have been partially restored where there has been extensive damage to rail infrastructure. But the line will be made operational on Sunday.
India has witnessed at least 20 severe cyclonic storms in past two decades but the ongoing "extremely severe" cyclone "Fani", which hit the eastern coast along Odisha with a wind speed of up to 200 km per hour on Friday, has been found to be the strongest to hit the country since 1999.
Extremely severe cyclone storm cyclone Fani, which hit Odisha coast near Puri on Friday morning, triggered heavy rains in parts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh, while gusty winds uprooted trees and electricity poles, officials said.
The extremely severe cyclonic storm made landfall at around 8 a.m. in Puri but thanks to enough advance warning, about 11 lakh people had already been evacuated from vulnerable and low-lying areas of at least 11 coastal districts by Thursday.
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