AP Photo/Barry Broman
Western tourists make their way through fallen debris Sunday May 4, 2008, in Yangon, Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis.
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A damaged billboard is seen following devastating Cyclone Nargis, Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Yangon, Myanmar.
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A Myanmar Buddhist monk makes his way past a fallen tree in Yangon, Sunday, May 4, 2008, following a devastating cyclone that struck the Southeast Asian country. At least 22,000 people were killed. Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, also known as Burma, early Saturday with winds of up to 120 mph.
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A man and woman take their child to a hospital in Yangon, Sunday, May 4, 2008. Residents of Myanmar's biggest city lit candles Monday, May 5, lined up to buy water and hacked their way through trees felled in the cyclone that killed at leasy 22,000 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power outages.
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Residents make their way through fallen trees in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, May 4, 2008, following Cyclone Nargis. Older citizens said they had never seen Yangon, a city of some 6.5 million, so devastated in their lifetimes.
AP Photo/Barry Broman
A bicycle taxi driver moves along through a damaged area of Yangon, Sunday, May 4, 2008, following Cyclone Nargis.
AP Photo/Barry Broman
Residents clean up outside a restaurant destroyed by a devastating cyclone hit Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Monks clear up roads damaged by a cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, May 4, 2008.
AP/Democratic Voice of Burma
Trees are uprooted as part of the roof is seen on the ground on Sunday May 4, 2008, after tropical cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon. At least 22,000 people have died in Myanmar in the powerful cyclone that knocked out power in the impoverished country's commercial capital and destroyed thousands of homes.
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Uprooted trees lied blocking the road after Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, Sunday May 4, 2008.
AP Photo/Barry Broman
Yangon mayor Col. Aung Thein Lin, center, talks with workers as they attempt to get water to others Sunday, May 4, 2008, in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
AP/Xinhua, Zhang Yunfei
Local residents clear up roads in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, May 4, 2008.
AP/Democratic Voice of Burma
Some of the devastation is seen Sunday May 4, 2008, in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon.
AP/Democratic Voice of Burma
A fallen tree is seen on a street in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday May 4, 2008.
AP/Democratic Voice of Burma
A giant billboard is seen knocked to the street in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, May 4, 2008.
AP/Democratic Voice of Burma
People walk past fallen trees at a street in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, May 4, 2008.
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Myanmar Buddhist nuns make their way past a fallen tree following the devastating cyclone, Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Yangon.
AP/Xinhua, Zhang Yunfei
An electric pole is broken by strong wind on a street in Yangon, Saturday, May 3, 2008, after Yangon was hit by Cyclone Nargis on Saturday.
AP/Xinhua, Zhang Yunfei
A billboard blown down by strong winds of Cyclone Nargis in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, May 3, 2008.
AP Photo/NASA
Cyclone Nargis is seen in the Bay of Bengal Friday, May 2, 2008. The image shows the storm traveling over Myanmar, with the storm's well-defined eye visible just off the western coast. When the storm made landfall at Cape Negrais, Nargis had sustained winds of up to 130 mph and gusts of 150-160 mph, making the storm a strong Category 3 or minimal Category 4.
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