KOLKATA: Bang in the middle of handling the Covid-19 pandemic, Kolkata was left battered and bruised when
Cyclone Amphan
— the strongest storm in current memory– passed through it like a rampaging T-Rex, snapping power lines, shattering windowpanes, rooting out trees and iron gates and making high-rises shake.
For the majority of Kolkatans stuck at house, each second of the six-and-a-half hours that the storm raved on for seemed like hours. It was especially frightening for those residing on the top floors of high-rises.
” On the 40 th flooring, it felt as if we were being shaken by the collar,” said Debjani Mukherjee, a resident of the Urbana complex on the EM Bypass. “Some of the window frames got injured and several setups, lights and a part of the roofing of the club has actually got damaged. A gate outside Tower 4 has actually likewise got rooted out, and we had to run downstairs and engage 20 individuals to shift it to a safer location. It is scarier on the upper floorings. I have actually never seen something like this.”
At the
South City complex
on Prince Anwar Shah Roadway, homeowners saw parking lot outdoors moving in the wind and setups at