We don’t normally veer entirely off-topic, but in this case, the subject matter is riveting and worth reading. It’s a series of blog posts from an American that lived through the horrific cyclone that hit Myanmar, from which 100,000 died directly and several million are now imperiled. We found it through the Englishman in New York blog. It is very, very long, totaling many thousands of words, but we found that we couldn’t stop reading. The blogger rode out the storm in Yangon and, then, later travels outside the city.–Danwei