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India Hit by Powerful Cyclone Tauktae

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  On Monday, Gujarat, India was hit by the strongest storm ever to strike India’s west coast. Cyclone Tauktae has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and made India’s Covid-19 emergency even more difficult to deal with. India had been preparing for Cyclone Tauktae for days as the cyclone worked its way up the west coast. Over 200,000 people were evacuted from low-lying areas in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Long before it hit land, Tauktae brought huge amounts of rain, causing flooding in several Indian states. As the cyclone came closer to land, it grew stronger and stronger. On Monday night, Tauktae made landfall in Gujarat, hitting the state with winds as fast as 125 mph (205 kph ). That’s the strongest storm ever to hit India’s west coast, and breaks an earlier record set in 1998. The cyclone, which India’s weather agency described as “extremely severe”, pounded the area with heavy rains, flooding roads and highways. Its strong winds knocked down trees an

The World's Longest Suspension Bridge

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On Monday, a recreation center in Arouca, Portugal opened an unparalleled new extension. Despite the fact that it's very high, it's the length of the scaffold that has established a standard. It's the world's longest draping span for walkers – more than five football fields long.  The 516 Arouca connect runs between two mountains in Arouca Geopark in Portugal. The "516" in its name comes from the way that it's 516 meters (564 yards) in length It's an engineered overpass, which implies that it hangs between its two finishes with no backings under. The developers say the scaffold was enlivened by engineered overpasses worked by the old Inca individuals in the Andes Mountains in South America.  In contrast to the scaffolds of the Incas, which were made of grass, 516 Arouca is made essentially of metal. Solid steel links run back from the extension to the enormous V-molded backings which anchor the scaffol