The whole country is stunned by the effect of the category-4 cyclone in Bangladesh. The southern part of the country is battered so badly that after one day of its destruction more than thousand are reported to be dead where as the number is surely going to multiply many a times as time progressing. The communication system has not been restored and it is still not accessible to many a parts of the country. The power grids have tripped and the country was literally without electricity for a complete day. The power has been restored in my area at 1 am the next day, 26 hours since it went out. When I went out in last morning I was shivered seeing the aftermath of the storm in Dhaka, where the speed of the air was hardly 100-120 Km/h. I just can’t imagine how the people of the southern part of Bangladesh were feeling where the storm had a speed of more than 240 Km/h. The property loss is going to be much higher than the mortality rate as it is believed that drastic action was taken to save human lives by taking them to the Cyclone shelter. People could hardly do anything to their properties and livestocks. We were in complete ignorance of what happened to the fate of the people of the effected area as there were no electricity. The mobile communication to those area were destroyed. We came to know that the direction of SIDR was towards Dhaka, and it was at 9pm. The cyclone started to hammer Dhaka region at 12 am that night. So the inhabitants were still not prepared for such a disaster. Trees were uprooted, electric lines were tore, advertising boards were shattered throughout the city. This is the situation where the cyclone was way less powerful than what it was in the coastal areas. It is assumed that a huge number of animals also suffered death in the Sundarban region, the largest mangrove forest in the world. The greatest problem lies ahead as people have literally nothing left in their home in the effected ares. They have no home, they have nothing to eat, even if they have stored their food somehow- they can’t cook. They need medical assistance as well. Thousands of volunteers and social workers are trying their best to help the people. We, who can’t lengthen our hands to help them, can atleast pray for the poor people of the effected areas. May Allah give them the power to survive the hurdles.
