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When did Cyclone Aila happen?
25th May 2009
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How many people died?
190
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How many people became homeless?
750 000
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How many people were affected in total?
3.5 million
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What diseases spread?
Typhoid and malaria
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How many people had not returned by mid-2010?
20 000
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What did many people do?
They migrated and forced to live slums
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How was education affected?
Children could not go to school due to homelessness
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What do weather forecasts do?
Forecast cyclones through tv and radio
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How have weather forecasts been successful in Bangladesh?
They have halved the death rate and forecasts are followed by evacuations
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What are challenges with weather forecasts?
Not everyone hears them as they don't have tech
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What does satellite technology do?
Track cyclones
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How has satellite technology been successful?
It has been done before
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What are the challenges of satellite technology?
It's expensive
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What are the warning systems?
They allow people to evacuate and are spread through village meetings, poster, film, etc.
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How have warning systems been successful?
They have led to evacuations in coastal communities
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What are the challenges of warning systems?
Some people don't respond and illiterate people cannot read warnings
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What do evacuations involve?
People go to safety shelters which can hold 5000
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How evacuations been successful?
Most people who go survive
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What are the challenges of evacuations?
In areas without shelters deaths double and more shelters are needed
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What are storm surge defences?
They are defences on low-lying land
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How have storm surge defences been successful?
Main roads have been built on top of defences
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What are the challenges of storm surges?
It's impossible to protect the whole country
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