sentences:  The cyclone weakened rapidly as it moved inland and dissipated on the next day, over south Assam.This cyclone brought a devastating storm surge of up to 10 metres (33 ft) high to the Ganges Delta.Largely as a result of this surge, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people lost their lives, making this storm the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the deadliest natural disasters of modern times.