Amaravathi sources stated that nine head of cattle and 12 sheep were killed in rain-related incidents, while over 2,000 electricity poles were uprooted because of high velocity winds and 218 cellular phone towers damaged. Reportedly the extremely severe cyclonic storm made landfall at around 8 a.m. in Puri but thanks to enough advance warning, about 11 lakh people had already been evacuated from vulnerable and low-lying areas of at least 11 coastal districts of Odisha by Thursday.

 Image result for 1.	Rains lashed parts of AP as a fall out of Cyclone 'Fani'

Furthermore the Andhra Pradesh government's Real Time Governance Centre, which tracked the cyclone's movement round the clock for the last two days and predicted the exact landfall at Puri, came in for praise from the Odisha government. Meanwhile Odisha government officials called RTGC Chief Executive Officer Babu Ahamed over phone Friday and thanked him for constantly updating them about Fanis movement.

 


Moreover Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu told reporters that the precise movement of the cyclonic storm could be predicted by the RTGC. He said “The damage could be minimized because of the accurate warnings and also loss of human life averted”. Apparently the Election Commission of India, in response to a letter written by the state Chief Electoral Officer Gopal Krishna Dwivedi, relaxed the provisions of the Model Code of Conduct in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts in view of the cyclone threat.


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