Tropical Cyclone Idai. NASA / Earth Observatory
Excerpts;
When Cyclone Idai, a devastating tropical storm, swept across southeastern Africa on Thursday, it killed at least 150 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and left Beira, a coastal city of a half-million people in central Mozambique, almost totally destroyed…
The storm pushed tons of sand from the city’s beach onto downtown streets, complicating emergency response efforts…