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HEAVY RAIN AND a high tide lashed parts of India’s eastern coast as a cyclone pushed ashore in an area where more than 1.1 million people have evacuated amid a devastating coronavirus surge.
Cyclone Yaas already had caused two deaths and damage to homes as severe weather and rains affected Odisha and West Bengal states before the storm began making landfall around midday on Wednesday.
The “very severe cyclonic storm” has sustained winds of up to 87mph that are gusting up to 97mph, the India Meteorological Department said.
“The landfall process of the storm has started, centred nearly 50 kilometres (30 miles) south-east of Balasore in Odisha state,” it said.
Heavy rain and the sea tide flooded parts of coastal areas in West Bengal and Odisha states.
Television images showed knee-deep water flooding the beach area of Digha, a resort town in West Bengal state. Palm trees whipped back and forth amid strong wind gusts.
A tornado snapped electricity lines that electrocuted two people and damaged 40 houses in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Tuesday, the top state elected official Mamata Banerjee said.
Kolkata airport was and train services were cancelled before the storm as a precaution, the railroad department said.
The cyclone has dumped more than 6.5 inches of rain in Chandabali and Paradip regions of Odisha state since Tuesday, the meteorological department said. Tidal waves of up to 13 feet were forecast to flood some low-lying areas.
At least 20 districts in West Bengal state were expected to feel the brunt of the storm. Fishing trawlers and boats were told to take shelter.
The cyclone coming amid a devastating coronavirus surge complicates India’s efforts to deal with both after another storm, Cyclone Tauktae, hit India’s west coast last week and killed more than 140 people.
Odisha’s chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, appealed to people being moved to cyclone shelters to wear double masks and maintain social distancing.
“We have to face both the challenges simultaneously,” Patnaik said.
Thousands of emergency personnel have been deployed to help evacuate people and prepare for possible rescue operations, said SN Pradhan, director of India’s National Disaster Response Force.
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Third time lucky my hole.
Nothing floatable about EirCON.
If the EU imposed installation and customer care standards to Eircom this company would seize to exist in a very short timespan❗️
@antonov, cease,
Not surprised….This company is going down the tubes….customer service is almost non- existent.
Absolutely correct. If there was ever a company I’d like to see wiped off the map it’s this one. They are a pure irritant. My sister called them back in January to have broadband installed. They activated the landline, came out like 2 weeks later to install it, couldn’t install due to some problem, said they put us on the ‘priority list’ to sort the problem and get back to us within another 7-10 business days. Despite multiple calls, haven’t seen or heard from them since.
Your having a laugh!
We paid for it through our taxes initially.
It was then flogged off for privatisation and we rolled in to buy some.
They then dumped us out for a fraction of what we paid when the Banksters got together.
It has limped along as Voda shares worth now nothing.
And now they intend to go to the markets again….
Boycott this money pit.
This will be embarrassing
(BREATH HOLD)………baaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha
Congratulations you have just purchased E25,000 worth of eircom shares you should see a return… And it’s gone.
Was it not Albert Einstein who defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
Caveat emptor.
Is like the Robbie Keane of the telco sector – had earned multiples of its intrinsic value in transfer fees alone.
I think I’ll be staying away …
Worst broadband in the country, awful customer service also. Anybody buying shares in this outfit will lose a fortune.
“Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me a third time….??… well your not going to fool me again”George w Bush
Sell the infrastructure back to the government. Even if we pay through the nose for it , at least in the long term it’ll pay off.
unless your selling copper for scrap. Fibre is were it’s at which eircom are late into the game. You’d be better starting from nothing then pay through the nose for eircom.
The company should be split in two… Eirgrid should be made managers of the cables and poles while the call service should be sold off.
Catch me once, shame on you. Catch me twice, shame on me. Catch me a third time – someone is really out to take the p1ss.
They need to just cease to exist at this stage!!
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