How Bengal, Odisha look after cyclone landfall

The landfall process for Cyclone ‘Amphan’ has begun at Digah in West Bengal. The process is likely to continue for four hours. In pic: A man covers himself with a plastic sheet and walks in the rain ahead of Cyclone Amphan landfall at Bhadrak district in Odisha. (AP)

Two women were killed in Howrah district and Minakhan area of South 24 Parganas district in Bengal due to uprooting of trees. (AP)

Kolkata will be hit by Cyclone Amphan by today evening. Rains have picked up in the city. (Express Photo by Shashi Ghosh)

North coastal districts of Odisha is experiencing heavy rainfall along with west Mednipore, south and north 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hoogli and Kolkata districts of West Bengal. (Express Photo by Shashi Ghosh)

Heavy rain and gale wind have affected several districts in the Gangetic West Bengal since morning and the intensity of the downpour and wind increased gradually with every passing hour. (Express Photo by Shashi Ghosh)

Lakhs of people in West Bengal and Odisha have been evacuated from vulnerable areas and shifted to safer locations. In pic: A man takes shelter from the wind and rain inside a hut ahead of Cyclone Amphan landfall at Bhadrak district in Odisha. (AP)

Cyclone Amphan, which has now weakened from Super Cyclone to an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm is the second super cyclone to have formed over the Bay of Bengal in two decades.(Express Photo by Shashi Gosh)

Cyclone Amphanis is expected to make a landfall between Digha, some 180 km south of Kolkata in West Bengal, and Hatiya islands in Bangladesh during the afternoon to evening hours of Wednesday, May 20, with the maximum sustained wind speed of 155-165 kmph gusting to 185 kmph. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)

Coastal districts of Gangetic West Bengal (East Medinipur, South and North 24 Parganas) experienced light to modertate rainfall Tuesday. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)

As rain intensified on Tuesday, the resort town of Digha in Purba Medinipur district wore a deserted look. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)

Director General of India Meteorological Department M. Mohapatra warned that there will be extensive damage to buildings, and uprooting of trees and electric and communication lines. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)

The state has twin challenges at hand – a cyclone and a pandemic. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)

Talgachari 1 Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter is getting prepared for people who will seek refuge from the storm. The building will house evacuees from low lying vulnerable areas of Bengal. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)

The shelter can usually accommodate 700 people but only 100 people will be allowed here for the purpose of maintaining social distancing during the coronavirus crisis. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)

Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Tuesday chaired the third meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee to review the country’s preparedness to deal with the cyclone, which will also affect coastal areas in Odisha. (Express Photo by Santanu Chowdhury)