Deccan Chronicle: For the first time the state was hit by four major calamities in a single year. In 2010, two successive cyclones, Laila and Jal, a depression and subsequent heavy rainfall left a trail of death and destruction of property and crops.
A total of 171 persons died -- 22 during Cyclone Laila, 65 during the Southwest monsoon, 63 during Cyclone Jal and 21 due to the depression, heavy rainfall and floods from May to December this year. After the rains, an unprecedented cold wave swept across the state,......
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Successive calamities in AP leave trail of despair
Posted by Deccan Chronicle: None Given on December 31st, 2010
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