News Headline
Facing Storms Without the Mangrove Wall
Source
Inter Press Service News Agency
Publication Date
2014-10-15
ATHENS, Oct 15 2014 (IPS) - As the cyclonic storm Hudhud ripped through India’s eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, home to two million people, at a land speed of over 190 kilometres per hour on Sunday, it destroyed electricity and telephone infrastructure, damaged the airport, and laid waste to thousands of thatched houses, as well as rice fields, banana plantations and sugarcane crops throughout the state.