New Delhi: Cyclone Sidr crossed Orissa with a wind speed up to 280km per hour, but there was no big damage. West Bengal, the other Indian state which had gone on a high alert, too was left unscathed as the storm veered off the state's coastline, bringing in a sigh of relief.
The powerful cyclone crossed half of Orissa's vulnerable areas on Thursday night, bringing in its wake gale and torrential rains. But initial reports say the storm caused no significant damage.
PTI quoted government officials in Bhubaneswar as saying that the cyclone didn't cause any damage. The storm touched four of the six districts that had been put on high alert.
"The system has already gone beyond districts of Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur and Puri," Orissa's Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) NK Sundaray told PTI. The cyclone passed without causing any damage in the state's costline, he said.
Official sources also said that since the system was moving fast in northerly direction, there was no possibility of the system changing its course and returning towards Orissa.
The Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC) in Bhubaneshwar, however, has cautioned the Orissa government to keep a vigil in at least two coastal districts — Balasore and Bhadrak — as the very severe cyclonic storm was expected to make a landfall near Sagar Island and Bangladesh coast early Friday and trigger waves upto three to four metres above normal tide.
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