Lessons from the perfect storm


Safe return: First Malaysian students rushing back home from the disaster.

THE perfect storm. That’s what they are calling the rains that hit Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The El Nino phenomenon, hot weather and the wettest ever day in close to a century all contributed to the catastrophe. Add to that some really bad town planning and Chennai was in real deep water.

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