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Related: About this forum"Everything Is Destroyed, Everything": Idai Breaks Back Of Regional Infrastructure, Supply Routes
Aerial photography and drone footage have shown the apocalyptic scenes left in the cyclones wake: Fields of crops were ruined, rising floodwaters tore bridges off their moorings, mudslides smashed roads and whole villages were swept away. Survivors found themselves trapped on new islands, surrounded by the brackish waters that obliterated their homes.
The United Nations estimated that more than 2.6 million people are in need of immediate assistance. Aid officials believe the tropical storm damaged or destroyed some 90 percent of the Indian Ocean port of Beira, Mozambiques fourth-largest city. Though the countrys authorities placed the official death toll at under 100 so far, President Filipe Nyusi spoke to local media after flying over affected areas in a helicopter and said that everything indicates that we can have a record of more than 1,000 dead. In Zimbabwe, the official death toll stood at 98; in Malawi, its at 56 but the actual figures may take months to determine.
The region affected by Idai is one of the poorest in the world, wrote my colleague Max Bearak, who was en route to the ravaged city on Wednesday. Infrastructure was already lacking, and the storm has destroyed key public institutions like hospitals and water sources. Beira is a major entry point for food and gas inland; its paralysis raised fears of possible shortages across the region at a time when resources are already deeply strained.
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"Everything Is Destroyed, Everything": Idai Breaks Back Of Regional Infrastructure, Supply Routes (Original Post)
hatrack
Mar 2019
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Damn! That's an emergency. This where we should be spending, if we had enough to spend.
TreasonousBastard
Mar 2019
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Damn! That's an emergency. This where we should be spending, if we had enough to spend.
mackdaddy
(1,527 posts)2. I did not recognize the storm name, so I had to read the article to see which flood diaster this was
I think there are 4 or 5 major flooding disasters going on right now.
Mozambique, SE Africa
US Midwest
I guess flooding in Australia and Indoneasia were last month
Carolina's and Texas last year so no worries now I guess.
I need a score card to keep up with the end times.....