But government authorities in Odisha, along India’s eastern flank, hardly stood still. Cyclone Fani slammed into Odisha on Friday morning with the force of a major hurricane, packing 120 mile per hour winds. Trees were ripped from the ground and many coastal shacks smashed. But as of early Saturday, mass casualties seem to have been averted. While the full extent of the destruction remained unclear, only a few deaths had been reported, in what appeared to be an early-warning success story.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2019 21:40 UTC