left in operation here. All roads out are gone. The internet
connection uses a generator and a satelite connection. Bottom half of
Leh is in tatters. The Tibetan refugee camp is mainly gone. I was
there today and there is nothing to do. Army is everywhere but few
tools and few trucks and tractors. Tibetans whose homes survived were
carrying all their possesions to higher ground. The mud is like
quicksand. You literally sink and get stuck in it making travel in the
affected area difficult. You have to balance on stuff stuck in the mud
to moive around. When you shovel it just flows back into the hole.
There have been flash floods three nights in a row. It feels literally
like gods wrath is moving up the valley striking a new village/town
each night. Countless small towns have been destroyed.
I helped at the hospital today with hundreds of others. We shoveled
out part of a hallway in one wing. Picture filling a large building 2
ft deep with wet concrete and debris and then shoveling it out. Even
with a hundred volunteers working hard we only made it half way down
the hall. (teams were at each end and in the middle shoveling out
windows).
I am feeling good. The hospital staff treat us well supplying us with
food, snacks and water.
It is hard to get a computer as the lines can be two hours for a
computer with a 20min log in process.
Haven't heard from Hans but then again I don't know how he would
contact anyone or even get back to Leh. No buses are running as there
aren't many passable roads (and half were destroyed at the bus
station).
Tyson
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