ONGOLE (The Thursday Times) — India Meteorological Department ne bataya ke Cyclone Murasu ne Mangal ki subah sawere India ke sooba Andhra Pradesh ke sahil par Ongole ke qareeb se guzarna shuru kiya, jo aik hafta se bhi kam muddat mein is sooba se takrane wala doosra cyclone hai.
Mehkama ne bataya ke landfall ka amal 1am par shuru hua, jab landfall ke maqam par 110 se 120 kilometre fi ghanta raftar ki hawaein record ki gayin. 3am tak toofan ka andaruni rain band khushki par pahunch chuka tha aur is ka wall cloud, yani markaz ke gird sab se tez hawaon ka halqa, sahil ki taraf aa raha tha. Mausam ke mahireen ne kaha ke is amal mein taqreeban 3 ghante lag sakte hain aur is ke baad toofan shumal-shumal-maghrib ki taraf barhta rahega.
Mehkama ne madd se taqreeban 1 se 1.5 meter oonchi toofani lehar se khabardar kiya, jo janoobi Andhra ke sahil ke nichle ilaqon mein sailab ke liye kafi hai, aur sab se oonchi lehar Bapatla, Krishna aur Prakasam ke zilon par mutawaqqa hai. Mehkama ne agle 12 ghanton mein tez barish ke daur ki peshgoi ki. Prakasam ke Kothapatnam mein 1am tak 74.7 millimetre aur Ongole mein 18 millimetre barish record ki gayi.
Maqami logon ko ghar ke andar rehne ki hidayat
Prakasam ke District Revenue Officer B. Venkata Ramana ne logon se ghar par rehne ko kaha aur bataya ke bohat tez hawaein aur barish subah ke waqt tak bhi jari rahengi. Nellore ke District Collector Himanshu Shukla ne maqami logon ko wahi hidayat di.
Ongole aur Kothapatnam ke darmiyan gaon Chintala mein aik darakht girne se aik gaari phans gayi, jis par zile ne ise hatane ke liye khusoosi team bheji. Peer ko Kothapatnam mein taqreeban 400 kishtiyan sahil par kheench li gayi thin, kyunke machere apni kishtiyan mehfooz kar rahe thay.
Andhra Pradesh ne 5 zilon ko alert par rakha: Bapatla, Palnadu, Markapuram, Nellore aur Prakasam. Sahil bhar mein National Disaster Response Force ki 6 teams aur sooba ki 7 teams tainat ki gayin.
Odisha ne 1 lakh 60 hazar logon ko muntaqil kar diya
Parosi sooba Odisha, jo pichhle hafta ke cyclone ke baad achanak aane wale sailab se abhi tak sambhal raha hai, ne Peer ko hukumat ki tayyari ki report ke mutabiq paanch zilon se 1 lakh 60 hazar 21 logon ko muntaqil kiya, jab ke hadaf 3 lakh 33 hazar 752 tha. Un mein se 1 lakh 51 hazar 434 log Ganjam se thay, aur 1,068 hamila khawateen ko mehfooz maqamat par muntaqil kiya gaya. Sooba ke mehkama-e-aabi wasail ke engineer-in-chief Dilip Kumar Rout ne kaha ke Odisha apne tamam 10 darmiyane reservoirs ka pani kam kar raha tha.
Peer ko Vijayawada, Tirupati aur Visakhapatnam airports par kam az kam 19 domestic flights mansookh ki gayin, jab ke Chennai aane aur wahan se jane wali 11 flights bhi mansookh kar di gayin.
Arnab se abhi tak sambhalta hua sahil
Murasu us waqt aaya jab ilaqa Cyclone Arnab se sambhal nahin paya tha, jo pichhle hafta Andhra ke sahil se takraya tha. Andhra Pradesh mein Arnab se halakton ki tadad 7 ho gayi, jab ke Odisha mein sailab aur landslides mein kam az kam 6 mazeed log halak ho gaye.
Arnab ne Andhra Pradesh mein 15,000 se zyada bijli ke khambe ukhar diye, aur bijli ki bahali mein takheer ho gayi hai. Karnataka ke Wazir-e-Aala D.K. Shivakumar ne kaha ke un ka sooba marammat ka kaam tez karne ke liye 500 mahir bijli karkun aur saaz-o-saman bhej raha tha.
