Downed power lines and uprooted trees are seen on a Yangon (Rangoon) street on May 4, 2008, after Cyclone Nargis tore into the former capital of Myanmar (Burma).

Eyewitnesses reported knee-deep floodwaters, no electricity or phones, and tin huts crushed by downed trees and the storm's 150-mile-an-hour (241-kilometer-an-hour) winds.

"This has pushed people to the edge," Hakan Tongkul of the UN World Food Programme told CNN. "All that they have has been blown away."

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