The aftermath: Cyclone Phailin leaves trail of devastation

Cyclone Phailin left a trail of destruction along India's east coast Sunday and up to seven people dead after the biggest evacuation in the country's history helped minimise casualties.

Evacuated Indian villagers get down from a truck at a relief camp as it rains near Berhampur, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. AFP

An Indian woman carries away a branch of an uprooted tree from Cyclone Phailin as municipal workers clear a main highway in Berhampur, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. (AP)

An uprooted tree is fallen at a gas station during Cyclone Phailin in Berhampur, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. An immense, powerful cyclone that lashed the Indian coast, forcing 500,000 people to evacuate and causing widespread damage, weakened Sunday after making landfall. (AP)

An Indian man salvages a table stuck in uprooted trees fallen during Cyclone Phailin on a road in Berhampur, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. (AP)

Indian municipal workers cut an uprooted tree from Cyclone Phailin to clear a main highway in Berhampur, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. Several people died in the rains that fell ahead of the storm, most killed by falling branches, Indian media reported, but the situation on the ground in many areas was still unclear after Cyclone Phailin slammed into the coast Saturday evening in Orissa state, where power and communications lines were down along much of the coastline. (AP) 

A high tide wave hits the coastal area of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of people living along India's eastern coastline were taking shelter Saturday from a massive, powerful cyclone Phailin that was set to reach land packing destructive winds and heavy rains. (AP)

Evacuated Indian villagers eat food in a temporary cyclone shelter in Chatrapur in Ganjam district about 200 kilometers  (125 miles) from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. (AP)

A younh Indian boy reaches a relief camp after being evacuated as it rains near Berhampur, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. (AP)

Evacuated Indian villagers get down from a truck at a relief camp as it rains near Berhampur, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of people living along India's eastern coastline were taking shelter Saturday from a massive, powerful cyclone Phailin that was set to reach land packing destructive winds and heavy rains. (AP)

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