People along the coast of Odisha, which was hit by cyclone Dana, breathed a sigh of relief because the storm has mostly avoided the coastal areas. This is because it is expected to weaken into a deep depression in the next six hours after hitting land at midnight.

On Friday, the office of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi said, “We have reached our goal of zero casualties thanks to good planning and execution.”

Since the strong winds have died down, it has become clear that the high tide has damaged some towns and farmland. No one has been hurt or their property damaged. A government source said that the Bhitarkanika national park, which is where the storm made impact, has been mostly spared from the damage it caused, but details from the park have not yet been made public.

According to reports sent here from Bhadrak and Balasore areas, no one died and there was not a lot of damage to property.

He also said that the settlement village at Bagapatia, which houses people who had to leave their home land in Satabhaya because of sea erosion, was flooded by the high tide.

The severe cyclone storm hit land at midnight near the Habelikhati nature camp in Bhitarkanika National Park, just as the IMD had said it would. We were able to survive nature’s rage with no deaths because we took the right safety precautions and evacuated on time. The damage from the cave-in of kutcha houses has been pretty small. Several places in the coastal Rajnagar block can’t talk to each other on the road because trees have been cut down.

“However, ODRAF teams have mostly fixed the road communication after cutting down the downed trees,” said Nishant Mishra, Block Development Officer of Rajnagar block in Kendrapara district.

The storm was heading straight for Kendrapara and the nearby town of Bhadrak. Government organizations had been on high watch for a long time, and people were evacuated from areas that were likely to be hit. Of course, the storm had an effect on the area by bringing high winds and heavy rain that uprooted trees, damaged power lines in some places, and blew away many kutcha houses.

But the damage was not nearly as bad as what the emergency planners and scared people thought it would be.

“So far, no deaths have been reported.” There hasn’t been much property damage. “We hope that things will get back to normal soon,” Kendrapara Collector Smruti Ranjan Pradhan said.

An official said that Talchua, Rangani, Keruapala, Baghamari, Dangamal, Iswarpur, Gupti, and Satabhaya were the towns that were hit the hardest by the cyclone.

“By God’s grace, we are safe from nature’s wrath.” The wind was not as strong. Also, it rained a lot,” said Ramkant Sahu, who lives in the seaside town of Ramnagar in the Kendrapara area.

“Cyclones happen here all the time.” No matter how bad nature has been, we’ve been strong enough to handle the ups and downs of life. “We’re looking forward to normal life now that the worst fear is over,” said Krutibash Pradhan, who lives in Rajnagar in the Kendrapara district.

A lot of damage was done to the crops by heavy rain and strong winds. We’ve been lucky this time because the cyclone hasn’t done too much damage to us, but a lot of damage has been done to farmland. There is water in the crop fields. “We can’t figure out how bad the damage is until the rain stops,” said Priyanath Pradhan, a farmer from Talchua village.

“The paddy and vegetable plants have grown very well.” If there hadn’t been a storm this year, the yield would have been good. “The money we get will not be enough to cover the work we do in the field,” he said.