Stede en dorpe wat eens was, is een moddergesig – alles vernietig.  Alle paaie en infrastruktuur totaal vernietig en gelyk gemaak in die vloedwaters en wind, wat groot bome ontwortel het.  Niemand weet hoeveel mense dood is nie.   Mosambiek – Malawi en Zimbabwe.
The city’s airport is closed and flooding has cut off all roads to the city, but LeSueur said that damage in surrounding areas could be even worse.   In Zimbabwe, the worst damage occurred in its Chimanimani district, where flooding washed away homes and bridges, AFP reported.   Among those killed in the region were two school children who died when a boulder carried by a landslide collided with their dormitory. Soldiers were able to rescue the rest of the nearly 200 students, teachers and staff trapped in the school Sunday.   Officials are also worried about the fate of government workers who lived in a complex that was entirely flooded.   “We are very worried because all these houses were just suddenly submerged under water and literally washed away and that is where we have about 147 missing,” Chimanimani lawmaker Joshua Sacco said, according to AFP. “It’s very sad and the situation is dire.”

Idai cyclone : Mocambique – Zimbabwe

Mosambiek, Zimbabwe en Idai sikloon

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At least 120 people have died and many more are missing after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Our reporter Dasen Thathiah is in Beira and managed to get this report out with the help of the SA military

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Mozambique is at risk from an increase in heavy rainfall and more intense cyclones due to climate change, according to its USAID Climate Risk Profile. However, a 2018 study published in Environmental Research Letters found that the number of tropical cyclones forming over the Southwest Indian Ocean to make landfall in Southern Africa could actually decrease with global warming of up to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Mozambique is also threatened by sea level rise, which can make flooding worse. Beira is already working to mitigate rising ocean levels with infrastructure projects, BBC News reported.

14 MARCH 2019

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Cyclone Idai: Over 1,000 feared dead in Mozambique

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DRONE PICTURES Chimanimani In The Aftermath Of Cyclone Idai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9inD4XaHs
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The full scale of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi is become clearer as the death toll across the region continues to rise with thousands still missing.

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This was farmland

Cyclone winds and flooding cause disaster in southern Africa

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More than 1,000 people are feared dead after Tropical Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique on Friday. At least 215 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds are missing across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, according to government agencies and the Red Cross, which said 1.5 million people had been affected. A more precise death toll and the true scale of the damage is not likely to be known soon, as many areas are cut off

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🌀 Cyclone Idai death toll at 215, Beira city ’90 percent destroyed’ | Al Jazeera English

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Chiwenga in Cyclone hit Manicaland