Buddhist monks in Yangon (Rangoon) clear debris left by a cyclone that demolished much of the city over the weekend in a May 4, 2008, photo.

City residents and monks banded together, wielding axes and knives, to free roads of fallen trees.

(Related: "Video: Monks 'Vanish' at Myanmar Monasteries" [October 11, 2007].)

Some monasteries also opened their doors to Yangon residents left homeless by the storm, the Associated Press reported.

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