Sidr blasts away at Bangladesh!

Sidr the cyclone that hit Bangladesh, hit it very hard. The cyclone strengthened just before it made its landfall in Bangladesh. It was expected to hit the Orissa coastline but then it made a sudden turn and headed straight towards the Bangladesh coast. The cyclone was unexpected to be this severe and it literally blew Bangladesh off the map.
Take a look at the satellite image above and you can see for yourself the path of destruction that Sidr created when it landed in Bangladesh. Now Sidr, as the cyclone was named, has moved on to the Indian state of Assam. The destruction along the Bangladeshi coastline is enormous with many villages completely washed away. The red cross has estimated that Sidr must have caused at least 1000 fatalities this time around. The minute that the Cyclone landed in the Bangladeshi coast line, the sea overcame the land and pretty much took everything on it. The thing that one should remember is that Bangladesh is a low lying area with much of the land area below the sea level kind of like Holland. Whenever it rains, even so slightly,Bangladesh gets flooded. Now with rain accompanied with heavy to very heavy gusts of winds, you can imagine the impact that Sidr has had on Bangladesh. Many weather gurus had predicted that as the Global warming increases, the sub tropics will see unusual and destructive weather abnormalities like the Sidr. Maybe it is high time we did something with regard to Global warming and the next time a cyclone is on its way to meet us, lets all just run out of the front door.

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