May 2008: Myanmar cyclone

Refugees board boats in Labutta, Myanmar, to return to their villages, which were devastated by cyclone Nargis.  (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)

A girl collects rain water running off of her tent at a camp for people displaced by a cyclone near Labutta, Myanmar.  (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visits a mother and her baby in a cyclone relief camp in Dedaye, Myanmar. Ban Ki-moon toured Myanmar’s disaster area, and said he had come bearing a “message of hope” after the tragedy, which has left nearly 134,000 people dead or missing.  (AFP / Getty Images)

Cyclone survivors wait for food relief in Dedaye. Myanmar.  (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)

Displaced families live in makeshift huts in the cyclone-hit Shwepoughkan township of Myanmar.  (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)

People displaced by cyclone Nargis rest at a relief camp in Hlayang Thyar township on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.  (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)

A survivor of cyclone Nargis stands by a house rebuilt next to the wreckage of one that was destroyed, in Thetkala, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.  (Lisandru / AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Marines walk past boxes of water on the USS Essex, stationed about 85 nautical miles south of Yangon, Myanmar. The water packs are part of the aid to be transferred to Myanmar once the ship receives permission from Myanmar’s ruling junta.  (How Hwee Young / EPA)

A woman comforts her child at a relief center after fleeing Kyauktan, about 40 miles southeast of Yangon, Myanmar’s main city. Tropical Cyclone Nargis, which slammed into the rice-growing Irrawaddy River delta region in the country’s south, may be followed by another storm: A tropical depression is building over the Andaman Sea as survivors of the first storm await aid. The government raised the official toll to 29,000.  (AFP/Getty Images)

A boy carries away material scavenged from the debris of cyclone-ravaged houses in Kyauktan, about 40 miles southeast of Myanmar’s main city, Yangon, also known as Rangoon.  (AFP/Getty Images)

An elderly woman comes out of her destroyed house in the cyclone-hit Dedaye township, south of Yangon.  (AFP/Getty Images)

In this picture made available Friday, injured villagers mill around their destroyed homes Saturday in Bogalay township, one of the regions of Myanmar hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis.  (Stringer / EPA)

Children beg for food from passengers in a passing car Thursday in Bogalay. More than a million survivors of the cyclone are battling to stave off hunger and disease.  (Khin Maung Win AFP/Getty Images)

In Kyacek Tan, south of Yangon, on Friday, people wait for food at a temporary camp. International agencies are continuing efforts to deliver aid into Myanmar to assist up to 1 million people made homeless.  (Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty Images)

Myanmar soldiers unload food, water and medical supplies from a Thai military transport aircraft at Yangon. Thailand dispatched 15 tons of relief supplies for victims of Cyclone Nargis.  (Rungroj J. Yongrit / EPA)

Women and children get by with makeshift bathing arrangements on the streets of downtown Yangon.  (Chumsak Kanoknan / Getty Images)