The severe cyclonic storm made landfall near Ongole overnight into Tuesday, only days after Cyclone Arnab. No casualties were reported in the first hours.
During a two-day cap, drones flying faster than 72 to 161 km/h lost their satellite link. Reuters says the order came from the White House, which Washington denies.
Satellite imagery from Yale University shows a city where life has practically stopped, hospitals with pits and a 75-kilometer berm around the city. The drone war is spreading to Khartoum and the power grid, while foreign backers of both sides go unpunished.
The epicentre was near San José del Palmar in Chocó. Thousands of buildings were damaged from Cali to Pereira, and by September the national disaster agency had counted 331 dead.