Bhubaneswar, May 15 -- By Ashutosh Mishra
Bhubaneswar: Making comparisons in a human tendency. People, who either witnessed or were the victims of 1999 super-cyclone, are already comparing it with Fani which wreaked havoc on the state's coast on May 3.
It is being pointed out that the scale of casualties was much bigger in 1999 with around 10,000 people dying according to official estimates. In worst hit Ersama and other parts of Jagatsinghpur district bodies were littered on village roads making the task of relief and rescue workers that much more difficult.
A large number of cattle had also perished in 1999 triggering a temporary milk crisis in some of the affected areas. The gale with windspeed reaching 300 kms per hour was almost as ...