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Deaths |
140,000 |
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Homes destroyed |
450,000 |
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Schools destroyed |
1700 |
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Farm animals killed |
200,000 |
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Percentage of food stores destroyed |
40% |
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What happened to the rice fields? |
They were flooded on the Irrawaddy Delta |
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No. Of homeless people |
3 million |
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Percentage of households without clean water |
Over 70% |
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Cost of damage |
$10 billion |
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When did it happen? Where did it happen? |
2nd May 2008 at the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma |
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What did the government fail to do? |
They failed to warn their people and so they were not evacuated in time |
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Plan/predict/prepare |
Burma is a poor country and so can't afford to do any of these things. The emergency services were ill prepared, lacked training or equipment and lacked numbers |
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What else did the government not do? |
Accept help, it took them 3 weeks to allow aid into their country |
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Why was the impact greater here than in the USA? |
Burma depends on farming (crops and livestock) and much of this was totally destroyed |
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Flood defences |
They do not have any, and their houses are of poor quality and easily destroyed |
