Tirupati Nov 27: Normal life has come to a grinding halt in Chittoor district for the last two days due to heavy rains following the Nisha cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. As on Thursday night, over a hundred houses have collapsed and thousands of acres with standing crops of paddy and vegetables marooned.

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Many trees were uprooted and some medians damaged. Streets, lanes and bylanes in many residential colonies were inundated. Most subways were waterlogged and traffic was reduced to a crawl
RAINWATER HARVESTING STRUCTURES ADD TO STAGNATION Since the time I have constructed the RWH, nobody has come to check. I am not sure why the water is coming out of it now

Usually we sees at least 5,000 outpatient cases daily but on Wednesday there have been less than 2,000, said a senior official at Kilpauk Hospital
NORMAL life was thrown out of gear on Wednesday as the city went under a thick sheet of water following torrential rains, as cyclone

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Torrential rains killed a woman and troops were deployed to help thousands of people after storms and flash floods hit Australia's Queensland state overnight, just days after cyclonic weather battered the tropical region.

Cyclone-like storms ripped across the southeast corner of Australia's tropical state Queensland, killing one man, destroying houses and leaving more than 230,000 homes and businesses without power, authorities said on Monday.

The storms cut a path of destruction on Sunday night from the state capital Brisbane to the tourist havens of the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.

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MACHILIPATNAM: Heavy downpour accompanied by strong winds and gales hit the district headquarters following concentration of cyclone in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday. An alert was sounded in coastal Andhra as cyclone over the Bay of Bengal threatened to hit the coast by night.

Over a million people are struggling without proper homes and at greater risk of disease than before, almost one year after cyclone Sidr ravaged parts of Bangladesh, Oxfam said on Wednesday.

Cyclone Sidr, the country's worst cyclone since 1991, ripped through over a dozen coastal districts on Nov. 15 last year, killing more than 3,300 people and displacing millions.

Tens of thousands of farmers in the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta face the prospect of a thin rice harvest this monsoon season and uncertainty over whether they will be able to plant the vital summer crop.

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