Cyclone Fani lashes India with wind gusts up to 127 mph, forcing 1.2 million from homes
More than 1,430 miles away on Mount Everest, some mountaineers and Sherpa guides were descending to lower camps as weather worsened at higher elevations. The government issued a warning that heavy snowfall was expected in the higher mountain areas with rain and storms lower down, and asked trekking agencies to take tourists to safety.
Because Fani spent 10 days gathering strength over the sea, it delivered a huge blow when it made landfall. Sethi, the special commissioner in Odisha, said communications were disrupted in some areas, but no deaths or injuries had been reported. Authorities in Bangladesh evacuated about 400,000 people and took them to cyclone shelters — decades-old, raised concrete structures — as the weather office forecast that the storm would cross the country's vast southwestern coastal region by midnight.
"But I think we will not be affected severely given the weakening force of the cyclone Fani," he said.
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