Along the way he collected medicine for victims of a cyclone in East Bengal.
In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh killed at least 138, 000 people and left millions homeless.
In 1996, more than 2, 000 people were killed or lost at sea when a cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh.
It was after that, I was walking through the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, surrounded by terrible poverty and the devastation of a cyclone.
To make things worse, a cyclone has devastated India's largest port, Kandla, killing more than 1, 000, and a poor crop has sent vegetable prices spiralling up.
The Locust Control Centre in Madagascar had treated 30, 000 hectares of farmland since last October, but a cyclone in February made the situation worse, the FAO said.
NGO, had wanted to build 5, 000-10, 000 houses for victims of a cyclone that struck the eastern state of Orissa in November 1999, but has money enough only for 1, 400.
We learned of ordinary people who organized relief teams to respond to a cyclone, and heard the voices of students and the beats of hip-hop artists projecting the sound of freedom.
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You know that the Web isn't quite done with reinventing humanity when, in the space of a week, a cyclone kills 100, 000 people in Myanmar and an earthquake kills 70, 000 in China.
People in Orissa, in eastern India, can testify to the horror: last November, when a cyclone dropped the sea on them, floods claimed over 10, 000 lives, 400, 000 animals, 250, 000 houses and 200, 000 hectares (500, 000 acres) of crops.
As nearly 2 million survivors of a cyclone that struck Myanmar remained at risk Wednesday, an unidentified NPR reporter there told co-host Steve Inskeep that there is a bit of good news: The United Nations was able to get a few visas for personnel who have been waiting in Bangkok.
In 1991, a devastating cyclone killed at least 140, 000 people, according to the United Nations.
Myanmar's military government is struggling to cope with a devastating cyclone that hit Saturday.
She enabled and facilitated a fashion cyclone that was gestating in the collective soul of her time.
Last month, at least five people were killed in Tamil Nadu after a tropical cyclone swept across the state.
Earlier this year when a deadly cyclone hit Myanmar that killed almost 100, 000 people and left millions homeless, the government turned away international aid to the frustration of many organizations.
It doesn't take much imagination from even a brief visit--which I made a month before the cyclone struck--to see how devastating such a storm would be.
Many come for the Cyclone, a rickety, wooden, 80-year-old rollercoaster, which has been likened to riding a really dangerous piece of furniture.
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She secured a visa to visit Myanmar in the aftermath of the cyclone, providing her with a close-up view of the clash between an isolationist regime and an often ignorant outside world.
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"Cyclone Nargis was a turning point, " says Andreas List, head of the EU Office in Rangoon.
The Cyclone was declared a New York City landmark in 1988.
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He's a meteorologist and the tropical cyclone program manager of the National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, with us by phone now from his office there.
But fears the cyclone might hit Samoa a second time have receded.
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And then there was Superstorm Sandy, a late October post-tropical cyclone that killed more than 110 people in the United States and nearly 70 more in the Caribbean and Canada.
"We're on the leading edge of a multidecade period of more intense tropical cyclone activity, " says Robert Hartwig, III'schief economist.
Nway wouldn't talk about the cyclone after aid workers found her a month later.
Also, by the way, global hurricane activity, measured in total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), is actually at a low not encountered since the 1970s.
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