Typhoon Ketsana Hits Northeastern Cambodia
>> Friday, October 9, 2009
The following ten pictoral posts are the story of a trip to the Se San River from Ratanakiri's Provincial Capital Ban Lung to check out our Cambodian tree farm near the town of Ven Sai two days after the storm.
The town of Ven Sai was under water, its residents made refugees.
The road to our land flooded after the Vietnamese released water from their strained hydro-electric dams upstream. All the villages along the river road from Ven Sai to our land were under water.
We worried that the rains and flooding might have destroyed the thousands of tree seedlings we had planted in June and July. To our surprise our land remained above the flood; the heavy rains had drained away easily. Lucky us.
As you will see these ten posts are more newsletter than time-phased commentary, more pictoral narrative than blog. They do give strong evidence of my own "analog mentality in a digital age" problem.
But what can I do? I find it hard to break free from these older forms of story telling and information presentation!
But I do hope you enjoy the trip. (The first 'page' is a complete jpeg. Just click it for a larger version.) Read more...
