By EvanTell | No Comments
Last updated: Monday, May 12, 2008

Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent describes what he can only imagine and what we cannot begin to fathom: Aid is beginning to reach the hungry, thirsty, sick survivors, but at this point, it has been over a week since the cyclone hit.

Imagine huddling under a tree with dozens of others, your back flayed open by the whipping leaves and branches in the water, and there’s no medication; the wind is severe and it’s raining hard, you’re hungry and there’s no food, and the only water to drink is the floodwater that surrounds you, which is polluted by the corpses of humans and animals bobbing around you. Your children are crying and the old people are sick. And you look into the sky for planes or across the water for rescue boats, and they both stretch to the horizon and are empty.

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