Storm lashes Bangladesh coast, thousands evacuated - 颱風討論

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSSP315166._CH_.2400

(Updates storm's position, adds details throughout)

By Anis Ahmed

DHAKA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A super cyclone was bearing down rapidly on
Bangladesh's southwest coastline, ripping off tin roofs from houses and
uprooting trees, as tens of thousands of mainlanders were evacuated to
shelters.

超級旋風快速朝孟加拉海岸移動 房屋 樹 等都遭蹂躪
上萬人被撤離到避難所

London-based Tropical Storm Risk said Cyclone Sidr was a Category 4 storm,
packing winds of 135 knots, and was heading due north on a course that would
take it over the heavily populated southern coast and then towards the
capital, Dhaka.

Sidr是四級颶風 朝人口相當稠密的孟加拉移動 可能正中首都達卡

"From my window, I can see tins ripped off the roofs and tree branches flying
under the sky covered with thick clouds," said Moulvi Feroze Ahmed, a local
government official on St. Martin's island in the Bay of Bengal near the
storm.

鐵皮屋 樹枝....等東西自然不是超級旋風的對手

"It looks like the sea is coming to grab us," he said.

海好像要把我們吞沒了@@

Cyclones can cause immense devastation in disaster-prone Bangladesh, a
low-lying country of more than 140 million people, particularly from storm
surges that can rise as high as 5 metres (16 feet) as severe cyclones make
landfall, weather experts say.

旋風在地勢低漥 常發生天災而人口稠密(1億四千萬)的孟加拉 會造成很慘烈的災情
尤其當旋風登陸時捲起超過5公尺高以上的暴潮....

The storm started blowing fiercely at 5 .p.m. (1100 GMT) at Dublarchar and
nearby fishing islands and at the Hiron Point near the Sundarbans at 7 p.m.
(1300 GMT), local officials said. The mangrove forests in the Sundarbans are
home to the endangered Bengal tigers and the park is a World Heritage site.

Both areas have been hit by winds up to 150 kph (90 mph), said a reporter at
nearby Mongla, quoting weather officials.

Power and telephone links have been largely cut, but some mobile networks are
working sporadically, the reporter said.

Navy officials said many of Dublarchar's nearly 15,000 fishermen were
believed to have taken shelter in the Sundarban mangroves, with their boats.

Rivers flowing into the Bay of Bengal along parts of the southern coast have
all swollen and are still rising, water department officials said.

Some areas have been inundated by a storm surge of up to 7 feet (2.3 metres),
and many thatched homes were swept away, disaster management officials said.

The Bangladesh Meteorology Department said the core of the storm was now
about 150 km (90 miles) from the Mongla coast and was expected to make
landfall around midnight on Thursday (1800 GMT).

600,000 EVACUATED

60萬人遭疏散

Officials at Cox's Bazar, a popular tourist destination, said they had
evacuated nearly 200,000 people to about 600 government and private shelters
and asked others to move on their own.

Around 400,000 more were evacuated from other coastal areas, disaster
management officials said.

Storms batter the poor south Asian country every year. A severe cyclone
killed more than half a million people in 1970, while one in 1991, which
generated a 6-metre storm surge, killed 143,000 people.

貧窮的南亞每年都會遭到風暴侵襲(不一定指Cyclone)
尤其1970年時有50萬人死亡@@ 1991年時 6公尺高的暴潮造成14萬3千人死亡@@

Nearly 10 million Bangladeshis live along the southern coast, which usually
takes the brunt of cyclones, but the area has shelters for only about half a
million.

有將近1千萬人居住在孟加拉南邊海岸 囧...

但是避難所只能容納50萬人.............囧囧囧....

Chittagong and Mongla ports suspended operations on Wednesday and moved ships
to safer areas, port officials said. Chittagong airport suspended flights and
moved planes away, officials said.

All schools and colleges in Chittagong and other towns in the storm's path
have been shut down and fishing trawlers have been asked to return to port
immediately.

The meteorology department raised danger signal number 10, the highest, at
Mongla, Bangladesh's second main sea port, and number 9 at Chittagong and
Cox's Bazar.

The storm was expected to hit India's West Bengal coast around midnight with
wind speeds of up to 200 km per hour, said B.P. Yadav, a senior weather
official."We have suggested evacuation of people from the region," he added.
(Additional reporting by Serajul Islam Quadir in Dhaka, Bappa Majumdar in
Kolkata and Reuters stringers in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Barisal and Khulna;
Editing by Bill Tarrant)

上面簡單翻譯一下路透社的最新新聞 而在寫文章的時候
Sidr真的登陸了@@@@@@


天佑孟加拉.....................

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