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Visakhapatnam, a city full of life and activity be it the fishing activity on the sea coast along Bay of Bengal, on the National Highway or its institutions, turned into a silent graveyard soon after the devastating Cyclone Hudhud literally raged everything standing on the ground on Sunday afternoon.
The picturesque port town of Visakhapatnam, a major industrial, educational and tourism hub in the east coast, is still reeling under the impact of havoc caused by the cyclonic storm Hudhud and is picking up pieces from a trail of destruction left behind by the calamity.
Under the impact of Hudhud that made a landfall here yesterday, accompanied by gusty winds and heavy rains, the city looks like a war-ravaged zone with uprooted trees, knocked down cell towers, transformers, and telephone poles lying strewn at several places.
Communication systems and electricity broke down in the city since Saturday
night and people at many a places are falling back on radio to know the updates about the cyclone.
Hudhud did not spare Visakhapatnam airport either blowing away its roof in gales. Lights and boards in the facility are either knocked down on ground or swept away.
“We were scared. We closed windows but the sound of winds itself was scary,” a woman resident said.
The flood water has entered residential and apartment complexes at some places and it needs to be pumped out now.
