Introduction of a paragraph writing on'Your Experience During Amphan'.
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It started from the time of the Industrial Revolution. Modernity lifted its head from some unknown place and we were awed by its presence, its sheer brilliance and power. Nature became an external object left for us to conquer and tame according to our own needs. This idea was then spread across the world by the force of colonisation.
Come to 2020, we have been left with an ongoing crisis period, which is linked in some way or the other to climate change, which is a by-product of modernity as we understand it today.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the recent Cyclone Amphan are all negative externalities of the great story of modernity.
The Cyclone Amphan made landfall in eastern India on May 20. In its path fell the states of Odisha, West Bengal and parts of Bangladesh. The most affected were the southern districts of West Bengal namely South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, North 24 Parganas and Midnapur. As I am writing this article many parts of the affected districts still lie in complete darkness, with thousands without homes, electricity, clean drinking water, clothes, and food.
The Early Warnings
Technological advancements made it possible for meteorological departments to successfully track the cyclone and its probable path which helped the authorities to evacuate 3 million people possibly saving thousands of lives. Amphan intensified rapidly in the Bay of Bengal to form a Super Cyclonic Storm. It weakened ahead of the landfall on Wednesday, May 20, to a very severe cyclonic storm, but was strong enough to wreak havoc across a wide area, including the densely populated areas of Kolkata where I live.
News channels covered this development very accurately, and a large portion of the population knew of the coming cyclone. Cyclones have become very frequent with the global rise in temperature, and the Bay of Bengal has been infamous for other cyclones that have originated in the past.
Representational image. Cyclones have become very frequent with the global rise in temperature, and the Bay of Bengal has been infamous for other cyclones that have originated in the past.
The previous year another strong cyclone affected the Indian state of Odisha and destroyed many densely populated areas such as Bhubaneshwar. I remember that it grew very weak when it finally reached Kolkata and no considerable damage was done. The coastal areas of the state of Odisha were affected severely and some parts of the state of West Bengal.
D-Day
It started raining since the early evening of May 19. Strong winds were becoming frequent since midnight. It grew considerably cooler during the night and I slept quite peacefully totally unaware of the destruction that was about to begin the next day because of the spinning storm over the north-eastern part of the Bay of Bengal.
The next day when I woke up the sky was already overcast with heavy spells of rain and strong winds. By mid-day, the rain increased and I saw through my window strong winds violently crashed with the coconut trees swinging them backwards. There is a mango tree in front of my apartment and mangoes kept falling as people came out of their homes to collect them.
My mind was completely kept busy with the constant LIVE reporting of the Bengali news channels. Reporters of these channels travelled to areas which would be the first to get hit by the cyclone when it would make landfall. Those places experienced high-velocity winds even when the cyclone was 100 kilometres from the coast.
Even in Kolkata trees started getting uprooted. Traffic lights lay on the road as brave workers of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation kept on fighting the fallen trees to keep the roads clear, still unaware of what lay ahead.
RSMC New Delhi accurately predicted that Amphan would make landfall with maximum sustained wind speeds of 155-165 km/hour, gusting to 185 km/hour and torrential rainfall between Digha (West Bengal, India) and Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh), close to Sunderbans national park area.
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The year 2020 is slowly but steadily making its way up to the top of the list of worst years we have seen. While the entire world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, India has another threat approaching its shores at a speed of 140 kmph. Super Cyclone Amphan is headed towards Odisha and West Bengal and will probably move inward into Bangladesh. But this is not the first super cyclone this region has seen — the 1999 Odisha cyclone that claimed 9,887 lives was the most intense recorded tropical cyclone in the North Indian Ocean and among the most destructive in the region. While the internet floods with updates on Amphan, let's find out what a super cyclone is and what the reports are actually telling us.