Broken but not beaten—the victims of Cyclone Nargis... "Four months after Cyclone Nargis, large areas of the Irrawaddy delta are still a devastated wasteland. The fierce storm unleashed the greatest natural catastrophe ever to hit Burma, and it was clear from the start that it would take years rather than months for the worst affected areas to recover. Multimedia (View) At least 140,000 people died or are still missing. Families were ripped apart, villages decimated, livelihoods and local economies destroyed. Almost 500,000 homes were flattened by the winds or carried away by the flood waters..."