Cyclone Dana brings floods and destruction to India's east coast - video Dailymotion

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Cyclone Dana hit India's eastern coast on Friday (October 25), uprooting trees, snapping power lines and flooding some areas, authorities said, adding that no deaths or injuries were reported.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Cyclone Dana hit India's eastern coast on Friday, uprooting trees, snapping power lines

00:09and flooding some areas. Cyclone Dana made landfall in Odisha state around midnight,

00:15with wind speeds of 100 to 110 kilometers per hour, gusting up to 75 miles per hour,

00:22weakened into a cyclonic storm by forenoon.

00:27There has been a lot of damage in the cyclone.

00:30Farmers have not suffered much damage.

00:33Now is the time for farming.

00:35There is no electricity since two or three days.

00:38Trees and grass have been damaged.

00:41There has been a lot of farming.

00:44There are still many families in water houses.

00:46They are not able to come out.

00:48Water had also come from the sea.

00:50Odisha had closed schools, suspended flights to and from its capital city of Bhubaneswar

00:56until Friday morning, and evacuated more than half a million people in anticipation of the storm.

01:02Heavy rainfall also lashed parts of the neighboring state of West Bengal

01:07and, accompanied by a surge in the seawater, left low-lying areas inundated,

01:12damaging the standing paddy crop that was almost ready for harvest in some fields.

01:17The wind is very strong.

01:20Rainfall is continuing.

01:22We cannot bring big vehicles to the villages that are inundated.

01:27The trees are not yet dry.

01:29They are wet, so it is challenging to cut them.

01:32Authorities said no deaths or injuries were reported.

Cyclone Dana brings floods and destruction to India's east coast

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