The cyclone Sidr ripped through the southwestern coast on November 15, killing over 2997 people till date and demolishing houses, crops, vegetables and trees alike along its trail of devastation over an area of thousands of square kilometres.Packing winds over 220km an hour, the fierce tropical storm roared across the shoreline after it hit landfall at the Khulna-Barisal coast at 7:30pm that day, cutting off all communications and utility services across the country.The cyclone left its mark of devastation on 133 upazilas, 962 unions, affecting 31.44 lakh population of about 8.87 lakh families. The storm killed 2.42 lakh livestock and completely destroyed crops on 23,122-acre land including six lakh metric tons of Aman. According to the estimate, 2.73 lakhs houses were totally flattened, with 58km roads totally destroyed and another 1,363km damaged

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