The next day she started a three-day saturation of the Changjon area, with one of her own helicopters spotting the results: four buildings destroyed, road junctions smashed, railroad marshaling yards afire, tracks cut and uprooted, coal stocks scattered, and many buildings and warehouses set blazing.
Luo Zongzhu, a chubby man in a hard hat and orange jumpsuit, forded the river and walked away from the village until the path led back up to the destroyed road.
By Saturday, the rivers and streams that run through the state had receded, but the floods had destroyed roads, bridges, electrical poles and communication networks.
The storm felled power lines, turned trees into huge icicles, destroyed roads and left about a million people in the dark.
In recent days, more than 15,000 people have been airlifted from Hsiao-lin and other communities cut off when landslides and rushing water destroyed roads and bridges.
There are so many wrecked cars and destroyed roads that there are Facebook pages and forums dedicated to documenting the absurd pervasiveness of accidents in Addis Ababa.
In the meantime, he is in constant communication with government relief workers, who often need to find new routes that avoid blocked or destroyed roads and bridges.
Floodwaters in the region have killed two people in their 70s, destroyed roads and forced the evacuation of nearly 3,000 from their homes, according to Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who traveled to Lourdes on Wednesday.
In this video, Mr. Peterson captured aerial footage of Lyons, which is west of Longmont, and where many people were rescued Friday after being trapped and cut off by the rising waters and destroyed roads.
For years after the eruption, as heavy rainfall and flooding eroded the thick pyroclastic deposits, recurring mudflows buried towns and farm fields, destroyed roads and bridges, and displaced more than 100,000 people.
A small town at the heart of New Zealand's tourism industry has been cut off as landslides, destroyed roads and bridges block entry in and out of the coastal resort.
