Cyclone Fani has left a horrific trail of destruction across the eastern coast of India as people come out to pick up the pieces of what is was left, of their damaged belongings .
Trees were uprooted, power and telecom lines snapped as Tropical Cyclone Fani, the strongest storm to hit India in five years, swept ashore the eastern state of Odisha.
The cyclone barreled into eastern India on Friday, damaging houses in the tourist town of Puri and wounding 160 people.
A million people had to be moved into storm shelters.
A shopkeeper, Himalaya Batra looking hopelessly at his destroyed shop, his only source of income, said that irrespective of all the preparations the authorities made, the cyclone destroyed everything he has.
Teams of the National Disaster Response Force and state police were seen clearing the roads and trying to bring back normalcy.
