Hi all...
I know that I have been lazy in keeping this Blog up-to-date, but I will get Burma and Cricket in India posts up soon.
I have no doubt that the western press have caught onto the mass destruction that has been caused throughout the country. Fortunately I and the majority of Dhaka remained relatively unscathed.
Instead it was again the less developed rural areas that bore the brunt of cyclone SIDR. Many villages were not only blown over by the 15o mph winds but the storm surge that accompanied the winds was reported to be up to 15 feet, washing away many of the low-lying coastal villages. Fortunately, if any fortune can come out of this event, the cyclone crossed land within the Sundabans Nature Reserve which is a massive (relative to Bangladesh land size) uninhabited mangrove forest. If it had crossed in a more densely populated area of Bangladesh (read: anywhere else) the death toll and destruction would have been much much worse.
Please offer any support that you can to this country, it needs all the support it can get during this troubled time.
I know that I have been lazy in keeping this Blog up-to-date, but I will get Burma and Cricket in India posts up soon.
I have no doubt that the western press have caught onto the mass destruction that has been caused throughout the country. Fortunately I and the majority of Dhaka remained relatively unscathed.
Instead it was again the less developed rural areas that bore the brunt of cyclone SIDR. Many villages were not only blown over by the 15o mph winds but the storm surge that accompanied the winds was reported to be up to 15 feet, washing away many of the low-lying coastal villages. Fortunately, if any fortune can come out of this event, the cyclone crossed land within the Sundabans Nature Reserve which is a massive (relative to Bangladesh land size) uninhabited mangrove forest. If it had crossed in a more densely populated area of Bangladesh (read: anywhere else) the death toll and destruction would have been much much worse.
Please offer any support that you can to this country, it needs all the support it can get during this troubled time.
