Cyclone Fani batters Odisha

From the archive record

The rarest-of-the-rare summer Cyclone Fani has left people of Odisha in severe distress and has rendered millions, jobless. Fani made landfall in Puri and has turned coastal Odisha into what looks like a war-ravaged zone. One of the most devastating storms in India’s and Odisha’s history, Fani dealt the coast a catastrophic blow with almost 64 fatalities. Over a million trees, hundreds of miles of power lines, and innumerable homes and schools have completely been destroyed. The Odisha government has assessed the extent of damages to be tentatively around Rs 12,000 crore, in a preliminary report to a visiting inter-ministerial team. Source : The Wire This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South A