Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. A strong dust storm (10-40 meters per second) occurred on August 9-10 in nine soums of Khovd Aimag, the western province of Mongolia. According to preliminary estimats, about 39.2 million Tg damage has been caused to properties of the soums' residents. Suffered the storm organization and citizens have carried out the reconstruction on their own, but 51 families--mostly low-income households--are still homeless. Strong wind, hail and heavy rain occurred in July 2006 in a third bag (smallest rural administrative unit) of Tuvshruulekh soum of Arkhangai Aimag and caused 11.9 million Tg damage. The Cabinet meeting, held on Wednesday, discussed these issues and ordered the Finance Minister to grant 26.3 million Tg and 11.1 million Tg to the two aimag Governor Offices from the state budget to eliminate the damage.