 Ahead of the storm, about 225,000 families evacuated, although many towns lacked proper storm shelters.When the cyclone made landfall, it produced strong winds up to 100 km (60 mi) inland, dropped of rainfall across a 40 km (25 mi) region, and flooded over 250 villages along 60 km (37 mi) portion of the coast.About 70% of the overall damage was in East Godavari district, where two villages were entirely destroyed.