Till 6 pm on Wednesday, around 100 trees and 11 electric poles had fallen. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is still assessing the damage done in the city Severe cyclonic storm Nisarga hit Mumbai on Wednesday and went about flattening houses, uprooting trees and bringing down electricity poles plunging homes in darkness.
One casualty, in Alibag, has been reported so far. “A 58-year-old man died after an electric pole fell on him at Umte village in Alibag, as Cyclone Nisarga made landfall in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Wednesday afternoon.
No other casualties have been reported from the state so far," said Nidhi Choudhary, district collector of Raigad. The damage however, was less than expected as winds changed direction and