Bracing for another storm

A Rohingya woman sits by her destroyed house at Ohn Taw Chay refugee camp in Sittwe in the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha’s landfall. — AFP

THE boon of knowing the cyclone was going to miss the southern tip of Bangladesh and barrel towards our neighbour has the bane of a premonition: next time we may not be lucky.

Alongside the coastal town of Cox’s Bazar, at least two of our major islands in the Teknaf range faced the full blast of the storm surges whipped by Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall on the coast of Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 14.