New Delhi, May 15 -- The memory of the 1999 supercyclone in Odisha is as vivid as a nightmare for Bina Kandi of Biluamundali village in Puri's Astarang block. She was pregnant and the flooding in her village was catastrophic. "The water rose up to my neck, the walls of my house were damaged and my family had to take shelter in a nearby structure to survive," says Kandi, 55. The households in Astarang struggled for long after the waters had receded. This was not a stray incident; in the years before and after, the block had been hit by successive cyclones and storms accompanied by strong tidal waves. However, over the last couple of years, they have found a saviour in the tidal mangrove forest, standing strong against the raging winds. Wom...