Cyclone Mocha

The Disaster Archive Dialogues · Oct 3, 2026 · 33m

Salt wind scrapes across the Bay of Bengal, cutting through tarpaulin and bamboo. Here, the weather is not distant or theoretical. For those who live along this coast, every approaching storm is a test—one that can turn a home into a memory overnight.In early twenty twenty-three, western Myanmar and the camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh were already living on the threshold of disaster. The ground was fragile, the shelters were makeshift, and the people had long learned to expect hardship from land and sky alike. But what happens when a cyclone arrives in a place where the line between refuge…