On-the-ground blogging from tsunami areas

Here is direct reporting from those areas of India impacted by the tsunami.  It provides a view not captured by satellite images, and it is painful.

A picture of hell, and no kerosene    

It’s five kilometres of hell, and it’s right here at Nagapattinum.

Kaviarsi studies – make that studied – in the sixth standard. Her schoolbooks lie a short distance away, and besides them lies a doll. The girl herself lies on a makeshift pyre on what used to be her home, her face totally blackened, her neck twisted upwards, the skin peeling off her legs like torn stockings. There is a large empty container of Pepsi lying just besides her, and four other bodies. And besides the pyre, towards the sunset, are five long kilometers of slushy wasteland strewn with dead bodies.

He reports from several different areas of devastation. [via Glenn Reynolds]