Cyclone Nargis

Cyclone Nargis hits Burma.

Current death toll: 3,900. With tens of thousands of people homeless or still missing.

Residents lined up to get drinking water on Monday in Yangon, Burma. Food and water are running short.

“Stories get worse by the hour,” one Yangon resident, “No drinking water in many areas, still no power. Houses completely disappeared. Refugees scavenging for food in poorer areas. Roofing, building supplies, tools — all are scarce and prices skyrocketing on everything.”

If those numbers are accurate, the death toll would be the highest from a natural disaster in Asia since the tsunami of December 2004.

This is not happening to some people on the other side of our planet...this is happening to people as you read this.

This is being lived...experienced...people are there in the middle of it...trying to cope.

....and with luck, extreme effort, generosity and humanity - survived.