The Bhola Cyclone began with the help of a left over tropical storm that

was breaking up in the Pacific Ocean. This contributed to a tropical

depression that formed November 8th 1970 in the Bay of Bengal. It
traveled North from there toward east Pakistan and intensified. By
November 11th the wind speed has reached between 137- 145
kilometers per hour or 85-90 miles per hour. It made land fall the
afternoon of November 12th. The Cyclone flooded densely populated
lowland plains of the Ganges Delta and wiped out hundreds of villages
overnight on November 12th during an above average lunar high tide.
The storm surges ranged from 20 feet to 35 feet on the Ganges Delta.

- When people were interviewed after the event, they described horrific
scenes of watching their children being swept away by the strong
current.
- Government officials concluded that the majority of the dead from the
official impact of the cyclone were women and children because they
were not strong enough to hold on too trees when the water came. They
predicted that the water knocked over the weak and drowned them.
- Crops were destroyed so there’s a lack of food.
- Severe abrasions on the limbs and chest caused by survivors clinging to
trees to withstand the storm surge.
- Infections and diseases were spread.
-Coastal areas such as Tazumuddin were demolished, with 45%
population missing or dead.
-85% of homes in the area were affected by the Bhola Cyclone were
destroyed or severely damaged along the coast.
-About 300,000 people overall died causing a decrease in population.
-The most heavily affected area of people were the poor costal
residents. The survivors took nothing but the clothing off their backs and
escape to India causing a larger decline in population.
-There was very little food as crops were destroyed causing a long term
lack of food.
-The water was contaminated so either people were dying from
dehydration or from diseases because they had drunk the water.
- Infection and diseases were spread.
-The results showed that the highest survival rate was for adult males
aged 15–49, while more than half the deaths were children under ten,
who only formed a third of the pre-cyclone population. This suggests that
the young, old, and sick were at the highest risk of perishing in the
cyclone and its storm surge.