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Situation Report 2 - Cyclone Ockhi 7th December 2017 (9:00 am) A. Cylone Storm - Ockhi OCKHI system further weakened, laid as low pressure area over south coastal Gujarat and neighborhood at 0830 hours IST the 06th December 2017 and completely dissipated by afternoon. No adverse weather due to this system any further. Sources: Media, IMD Website B. Impact Tamil Nadu: Death – 11 Missing fishermen -2570, Rescued fishermen -2384, Yet to be rescued -186 Damages reported by NGOs (IAG TN members and partners) Thiruvattar block: Revenue village Hamlet Relief Needs No.of units Surulodu Alamparai, Valiamalai, Fully damaged house 130 Kilikonam, Paduparai, Siramkuntru, Puravilai Partially damaged house 121 Thatchamalai, Fully damaged house 83 Thottamalai, Ettankuntru Partially damaged house 17 Maramalai Partially damaged house, 3 Fully damaged house 6 Munchirai Block: Missing Revenue Village Hamlet Death Damages Persons Thothoor Eraviputhundurai 8 210 Houses-10,Boats-8,Vallam- 5,(Fishing gears) Cinnathurai Cinnathurai - 150 Thothor, Poothurai, - 78 Boats-4,3,1 Eraimanthurai (Fishing gears) respectively Vallavilai, 4 130 Vallam-10 MarthandamThurai Neerodi - 91 Vallam-7 Killiyoor Block: Revenue Village Hamlet Death Missing Damages Persons Kalkulam Ramanthurai 1 - Houses-15, Vallam-2, (Fishing gears) Thengaipattanam Mullurthurai - - Houses-25, Vallam-3 Midalam Midalam - 13 Houses-3,Vallam-3, Boats-2, Kattumaram- 2, Vallam-10, Vallam-7 Kurunthencode Block: Missing Revenue Village Hamlet Death Damages Persons Colachel Colachel 3 25 Houses (f)-5, Houses(P)-20, Vallam-2, Boat-100, (Fishing gears) Kottilpaddu - - Houses (f)-7, Houses(P)-21,Vallam-3, Kattumaram-1, Country boat-2, Boat-7 Kurumpanai - - Submerged Houses-50, Vallam-2, Net-5 RajakkamangalamBlock: Revenue village Hamlet Death Missing Damages Persons Rajakkamangalam Alathankarai, - - Houses (fully damaged)-40, Theckuruchi Houses(Partly damaged)-20 • 23,000 acres of banana fields are damaged. Several hundreds of acres of rubber plantations and coconut trees tapioca and paddy fields were damaged. The figure will go up as the survey is yet to be completed. • More than 10,500 electric poles and several transformers were destroyed. As of now 7,500 poles are replaced. The electricity power has been restored in 41 of the 51 Town Panchayats and 55 of the 95 Village Panchayats. • Exact damage assessment could not be done due to lack of access(transport and communication to remote tribal villages). Hence, it was decided to do an sample assessment is the remote villages as early as possible which is under progress. More information awaited will be included in next sitrep. Please refer the annexures for more details of specific damages in the coastal villages. Intervention by NGOs (who are present in the meeting) in Thiruvattar Block Tribal villages: No. of Revenue village Hamlet Relief activities carried out Organisation units Manalodai Manalodai, Cooked food from 4/12/2017- 350 pax AWED Alamparai, 10/12/2017 Valiamalai, Food packets, 350 pax Rotaryclub (elite& Kilikonam, bed sheets-50, golden city) Paduparai, towel-50, Siramkuntru, tarpaulin-4 Puravilai Pechiparai Thottamalai, Tree cutters-2, Sanitary napkins- 155 pax Centre for Social Maramalai, 100, Food materials, Purified development Ethenkuntu, drinking water. Valaiyanthookki Tree cutting at Thottamalai and 250 trees AWED & volunteer. Thatchamalai removed. Agastheeswaram, 10 villages each Torch lights, Sanitary Napkins & Heel and ISHA Rajakkamangalam, Candles Kurunthencode IAG Tamil Nadu decisions and plans All the members present in coordination meeting unanimously decided to: 1. Undertake a detailed study of the damages to houses and the livelihood loss (damages caused to agriculture-Banana trees, rubber plantation, boats & nets and loss of employment) and consolidate them for collaboration with the Government. 2. Emerging Needs: In Tribal belt 1. As electricity is not till restored and transport access is very limited - relief kits for 1500 tribal families consisting of the following items: I. Food materials with safe drinking water. II. Lighting (kerosene, candles) III. Cloths, Bed sheet, Blankets. IV. Health/hygienic kits including sanitary napkins. V. Medicines/Medical camps. VI. Mosquito nets VII. Cooking vessels. VIII. School note books for children In agrarian areas 2. Nearly 30,000 severely affected families – as they have totally lost their household things, source of livelihood and agriculture cultivation - need relief support which include: I. Cash for work II. Food materials with safe drinking water with cooking vessels III. Cloths, Bed sheet, Blankets. IV. Household things to restart their living V. Health/hygienic kits including sanitary napkins and mosquito coils and nets. VI. Medicines/ Medical camps VII. Supplementary food for infants and school books and stationery for children In the coastal area 3. As they have loss employment and continuing cyclonic threat and social unrest may take a few more weeks to resume normalcy. Further the cultural sentiments call for support to the entire community in a area – nearly 40,000 families need to be supported with: I. Food packets / Food materials with safe drinking water II. Cloths, Bed sheet, Blankets. III. Health/hygienic kits including sanitary napkins and mosquito coils and nets. IV. Medicines/ Medical camps V. Supplementary food for infants and school books and stationery for children Advocacy and preparedness 1. Submitting a memorandum to Home Ministry through the State Government for consideration of revising norms of the National Disaster Response Fund notification no:32-7/2014 dated 01-04-2015of the Home Ministry, Government of India. 2. Half day capacity building training on mobile app based assessment and to do the damage assessment. 3. To collate desegregated data for children, pregnant women, lactating mothers, marginalized / excluded groups, other vulnerable groups and their specific needs Annexures 1. Missing boats report 1 and 2 2. IAG field visit report and coastal damages report. 3. Minutes of IAG TN, Kanayakumari chapter meeting. Sources: IAG Tamil Nadu and Media Kerala: 1. Death toll 26 2. 96 fishermen still missing 3. 63 people under treatment 4. 37 camps, total people in relief camps - 6581 people 5. 74 houses completelydestroyed 6. 1122 house partially affected Sources: Sphere India member ESAF Kerala and media Lakshadweep: 1. The water level has increased in Kalpany, Minicoy and Kavarathy. 2. All the drinking water sources are disrupted and contaminated. 3. All the buildings in the Islands are damaged in one way or other. The roofing other than concrete are dislocated by the wind. The Government department offices are damaged. Some of the offices could not function. 4. Most of the small as well as large Jettys are damaged, especially in Minicoy the transportation facilities are fully blocked due to fall of coconut trees. 5. No communication, electricity is available. 6. The detailed damages could not be assessed for lack of transport and communication and assessment is in progress. 7. The main port in Kalpeny also is damaged along with one break water jetty 8. 32 pax newly arrived along with 60 pax early reached in Islands. Now the total number of new arrivals is 92. 9. The available data as below. More details awaited Location Boat Houses Coconut Break water Jetty Uru Fishing boat lost Severely Uprooted damaged damaged Kalpany 1 25 12 200 1 Minicoy 18 16 115 275 4 Kavarathy 2 6 3 75 1 Total 3 49 31 115 475 6 Sources: Sphere India members, partners and media Maharashtra: 1. Maharashtra was on a state of high alert to tackle the side-effect of the stormy weather. 2. State Education Minister Vinod Tawde announced a “precautionary holiday’ on Tuesday (December 5) for all schools in the coastal districts of Palghar, Thane, Mumbai, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, in view of the predictions for the cyclone. 3. Mumbai Disaster Management unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued an advisory against visiting the beaches Tuesday and Wednesday. 4. The Western Railway (WR) said it has taken necessary precautions and made suitable arrangements in view of the warning about the cyclone. The WR’s engineering control has been kept on alert to keep a watch on water level over railway tracks More Details Awaited Gujarat: Details Awaited Interventions by Government: 1. Mr. Davidson, District Project Officer, District Disaster Management Cell informed that the electricity restoration works is completed in all the towns and the remote villages will be restored within a few days. Damage assessment is in progress, which is expected to be completed and released by the District administration on 8th evening. He suggested to provide mosquito nets, ensure chlorination of drinking water at household level, mobile generator, medicines and to conduct medical camps. 2. Search operations are continuing by coast guards through ships, helicopters and with the help of the International ships passing through the area. 3. The Madras High Court directed the District Collector and the District Superintendent of Police to provide basic amenities like drinking water, food, electricity and medical facilities to people, who have been affected by cyclone Ockhi and to file a status report on 7th of December. 4. Tamil Nadu government will provide relief worth Rs 41 lakh to houses that have suffered full and partial damage. A government release quoting revenue secretary B Chandramohan said 1,687 houses had been damaged completely while 2,814 houses suffered partial damage. 5. Government officials have said that 33,000 people in Kerala are affected. The Centre said 39 people have lost their lives and another 167 are missing. 6. Multiple rescue operations are being conducted across Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep where authorities are also trying to locate the missing people. 7. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said there was no advance warning about Cyclone Ockhi. “There was no advance information about Cyclone Ockhi at all. On November 30, at 8.30 a.m. the India Meteorological Department intimated about a very deep deep depression about 170 km off Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) coast. Even at that time, there was no mention of cyclone.
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