This weekend marks the 85th anniversary of New York's most esteemed roller coaster, the Cyclone.
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Heavy rains and winds were reported along India's Kachh region as the cyclone passed coastal Gujarat.
Nway wouldn't talk about the cyclone after aid workers found her a month later.
The boats, said to be carrying about 100 passengers, had been evacuating people ahead of the cyclone.
The Cyclone, which debuted on June 26, 1927, helped revolutionize entertainment in amusement parks across the United States.
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The cyclone that's left nearly 60, 000 people dead or missing, and more than a million facing disease and hunger.
And the United Nations estimates that one and a half million people have been seriously affected by the cyclone.
It said voting would still be held as planned in those parts of the country unaffected by the cyclone.
Their feeble response to the cyclone has shown how hollow is this boast.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully told reporters that "the best guess" was that the cyclone would not return.
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The village of Lelata, just outside Apia, was also ravaged by the cyclone.
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The cyclone not only damaged crops but created "optimal conditions for one more generation of locusts to breed", it added.
The cyclone was causing winds of up to150 kph (90 mph) when it hit Tuticorin, 575 km (360 miles) south of Madras.
We can't help them more, except to warn them of the cyclone.
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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The government has postponed the voting in areas affected by the cyclone.
But fears the cyclone might hit Samoa a second time have receded.
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Andrew Kirkwood believes the impact was even greater - that the shock of the cyclone helped to persuade the military to accept reform.
In Myanmar, the true number of dead there may never be known, from the cyclone that it hit on the 3rd of May.
Burmese officials began evacuations this week, after warnings the cyclone might hit neighbouring Bangladesh from Thursday, bringing heavy rain and flooding to western Burma.
Port Hedland had closed three main iron ore ports in the Pilbara region, the world's largest source of iron ore, as the cyclone approached.
Many commentators recalled that failures after the cyclone in East Pakistan in 1970 helped lead to the territory's breakaway as Bangladesh the following year.
"We hear speakers warning us about the cyclone, but we are still afraid, " said Ba Kyi, a Muslim community worker at a clinic in Sittwe.
In comparison, all of Rakhine state, she said, is "highly vulnerable, " even if it isn't where the cyclone first makes landfall, because of inadequate infrastructure.
The cyclone is likely to move northeast and gradually lose strength.
The Cyclone was declared a New York City landmark in 1988.
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"We are very worried about the cyclone... we do not have enough food to eat, " a member of the Rohingya community told Agence-France Presse news agency.
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.
"It's all over, and we are very relieved that we didn't have any unfortunate incident in Rakhine state due to the cyclone, " regional spokesman Win Myaing said.
"At least 15, 000 mud-built houses were damaged by the cyclone in our district, " Sirajul Islam, an official in Bangladesh's Noakhali district in Chittagong, told AFP news agency.
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