LEDC tropical storm case study >>> Cyclone Sidr

Cyclone Sidr - Bangladesh

Date: 9th - 15th November 2007

Location: Developed in the Bay of Bengal

Category: 4

Primary Impacts:

• 2,000-3,000 people died
• Buildings, roads and crops destroyed
• Food stores ruined
• Heavy rains and floods
• Tidal surges up to 5m
• Maximum sustained winds of 150mph and gusts up to 184mph

Secondary Impacts:

• Water based diseases from no clean water
• Millions homeless
• Can't pay for repair works

• £250 million pledged from other countries for help

• The army delivered supplies in remote countries by helicopter

• The World Food Programme sent 400,000 rations

• A project was set up by the government to restock farms

• Not enough cyclone shelters - they were too expensive to build

• Many warning systems were broken

• Can't pay for repairs so damages last for longer

• The poor housing conditions were easy for the cyclone to destroy