The evacuation of coastal areas of Florida and neighboring Georgia was the biggest seen in the US in a dozen years.
The successful effort to combat Cyclone Phailin threatens to put disaster mitigation, and a fundamental overhaul of how disaster management in India is structured, on the back-burner, says Anand Sarkar.
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