TC SIDR Aftermath : Photos,Videos and News

[Ptarmigan]

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.

It's a terrible situation in Bangladesh. I feel your pain. Welcome to Storm2K.

[Ptarmigan]

Don't know how credible this is. Now, they are saying the death toll could hit 15,000.

Bangladesh cyclone death toll may reach 15,000

[Chacor]

UN official speaking to the BBC estimates the final toll at less than 10,000, citing advance preparations and the fact that the storm did not devastate the whole coast - according to BBC correspondents on the ground, some villages just inland escaped severe damage, which is mostly confined to the coast.

[Squarethecircle]

UN official speaking to the BBC estimates the final toll at less than 10,000, citing advance preparations and the fact that the storm did not devastate the whole coast - according to BBC correspondents on the ground, some villages just inland escaped severe damage, which is mostly confined to the coast.

Sounds suspiciously political to me; most villages just inland were completely obliterated.

[Dionne]

UN official speaking to the BBC estimates the final toll at less than 10,000, citing advance preparations and the fact that the storm did not devastate the whole coast - according to BBC correspondents on the ground, some villages just inland escaped severe damage, which is mostly confined to the coast.

Sounds suspiciously political to me; most villages just inland were completely obliterated.

Ut-Oh.......there's the "P" word. The word police are gonna get you!

Before you get censored......I agree.

[Chacor]

I'll repeat - BBC correspondents on the ground reported intact villages, NOT the UN. There is nothing political here. If you question the BBC, that's your own matter, but this is NOT the place for it.

[cycloneye]

Is there a link to the BBC?

[Chacor]

Is there a link to the BBC?

Was on World Service radio. I should also point out that the word used here is 'some'. Most others were indeed flattened, but some did make it through unscathed.

[cycloneye]

The Latest from CNN

The red cross says the death toll will reach 10,000.

[Chacor]

5,000 to 10,000 was indeed the figure used by the UN spokeswoman on the BBC.

[Sanibel]

It's possible Sidr didn't have the same impact as Bhola. Though 5 meters is enough for a surge. It was possibly a narrower storm with less people in front of it. I think the lower death rate was due to Bangladeshi preparation.

[Derek Ortt]

another possibility is that the cyclone was not quite as intense as we thought. I also wonder if it had a smaller windfield than we were estimating here

[Squarethecircle]

I'll repeat - BBC correspondents on the ground reported intact villages, NOT the UN. There is nothing political here. If you question the BBC, that's your own matter, but this is NOT the place for it.

And I'll clarify - I was not referring to the intact villages, although it did sound like that, I was referring to the UN's confidence in the matter.

[Squarethecircle]

another possibility is that the cyclone was not quite as intense as we thought. I also wonder if it had a smaller windfield than we were estimating here

However, the recorded storm surge is what it is, and that is the primary cause of deaths.

[Coredesat]

Up to 3,447:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingne ... _id=102078

[Chacor]

As communications have already started improving, I think that a whole week after Sidr hit, a death toll that's still only in the 3,000-4,000 range and not higher at this point is very good news.

[Dionne]

At 9AM 11/20/07 (CST) CNN is reporting that many of the areas hit by the cyclone have yet to be reached by relief workers. The death toll is expected to continue to rise.

[HurricaneRobert]

They won't be able to count bodies washed away by the tide.

[Frank2]

That was the problem after Katrina - a precise death toll was never given in that case, with the estimates ranging from the official toll of 1,464 (as of September, 2006) up to 2,500 or even slightly higher.

I also heard the 15,000 figure this morning - let's hope the actual number is much lower, but, any loss of life is a tragedy.

[Squarethecircle]

My estimate, personally, is 12,500 to 20,000 deaths, but nowhere near the devastation of the 2004 'quake, the '91 cyclone, or Mr. Bhola.