ABSTRACT
Cyclone disasters make dramatic reading. Every few years headlines like these appear in Indian newspapers: “Cyclone toll 500; 1 million homeless”.… “Storm havoc, heavy loss of life feared … whole villages washed away”.… “Cyclone strikes coast; heavy damage to crops; 1 million hectares submerged”.… “Cyclone leaves 900 dead; total harvest destroyed”.… “A.P. toll exceeds 8,000; 2 million hectares affected”.… “A.P. toll may touch 13,000; 2 million homeless”.… and so on.
