Blog from Burma
Posted on May 13, 2008, by Hanna Ingber Win, under International, Media.
An American friend living in Rangoon recently started a blog to chronicle his experiences there during and after the cyclone.
Needless to say, most residents of southern Myanmar were entirely unprepared for the resulting devastation. For nearly 15 hours the storm terrorized Yangon’s population of more than 5 million people, uprooting trees, knocking down billboards and power lines, tearing the metal sheeting from rooftops and flooding low-lying areas.
