Both my family and my sister’s survived the devastating experience.

The mango tree in front of our house fell down, narrowly missing the house but blocking the gate.  We couldn’t get a wood/treecutter immediately but on the second day I managed to get one.  He asked for  K35,000.  As he cut up the tree, I had to pull the braches out of the compound.  Now my back hurts and the whole body is aching.

The coconut tree is still there.

Our satellite dish looks like a broken umbrella.

Two windows got broken – wind rain and leaves came in with great force.  Carpenters are very busy so it will take a couple of weeks to fix the windows.

A branch hit the roof of my parents’ room, making two holes.

And the roof of the concrete water tank caved in – as leaves get rotten day by day the water in there gets polluted so when I get home from work I have to empty it but no electricity yet to pump the clean water from the artisan well.  I’ll have to hire a generator for this.

Now we have to worry about fire, as the cut trees and braches together with leaves are all dumped outside our compounds and they have started to dry.  Yesterday, a neighbour was just about to burn semi-dry leaves and braches and we all had to rush to the scene to stop it.

The roof of my brother’s house in down town Rangoon was blown away – he’s still looking for a carpenter to fix it.

At my sister’s house – only a small part of the roof was blown away.  And of course all the trees have gone with the wind.

At a neighbour’s house – one third of the roof was blown away.