Post by robeiae on Mar 22, 2019 12:29:40 GMT -5
It hit last week as a category 3 cyclone. I saw some reports over the week-end that indictated there was widespread damage in Beira and some casualties, but I don't think the full scope of the destruction was clear. The latest: news.yahoo.com/frustration-mounts-mozambiques-beira-over-food-water-shortages-083053380.html
Beira is reportedly about 90% destroyed.
This piece has some sat photos, as well: www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/africa/cyclone-idai-1-week-later-intl/index.html
It also notes this:
I'm guessing the death toll will eventually rise well into the thousands.
Idai killed 242 people in Mozambique and 259 in Zimbabwe, and numbers were expected to rise, relief agencies said. In Malawi, 56 died in heavy rains before the onset of Idai.
This piece has some sat photos, as well: www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/africa/cyclone-idai-1-week-later-intl/index.html
It also notes this:
As many as "300 to 400" bodies line the banks of a road out of the city of Beira in Mozambique, according to an eyewitness account, and flood waters have formed an inland ocean that is visible from outer space.
