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How a prepared India saved lives during monster storm Phailin
2013-10-14 05:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As meteorologists warned last week of a monster storm ploughing towards India's east coast, the country's disaster preparedness teams snapped into action, pre-positioning emergency response teams and supplies, and evacuating nearly a million people - ultimately saving countless lives. The impressive show of disaster preparedness is thanks in large part to the lessons learnt after a powerful cyclone hit the country and killed 10,000 people in 1999, and the plans implemented in the years since, say...
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