It doesn't include how much it will cost to repair the devastated roads, sidewalks and bridges that will have been worn away by snow, freezing, salt and rust.
He has continued to tell it as it is, quietly demonstrating in I Licked a Slag's Deodorant - a bleak prose poem about the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and a nerdish businessman - that Blairite Britain is just as divided as the Thatcher-devastated world of Road.
When a large-scale natural disaster occurs, it may be impossible to take VSAT equipment to some devastated areas, since roads are greatly damaged and all traffic is shut down.
LBC Remittance Express, which is usually busy this time of year shipping Christmas packages to Filipino families back home, is now using its established motorbike and bicycle delivery services to get relief goods from the ports to the devastated inland, where roads are too clogged with storm debris for trucks to pass, dispatcher Emily Yap told Channel NewsAsia.
Not any old war ballad — mournful refrains about devastated lives, say, or road-tattered boots — but melodic riffs on the 1960s pop song "Gospel Lane" by the British duo Robbie Curtice and Tom Payne.
The separation of healthy and devastated mangrove trees by the road suggested a water flow problem.
Individual agencies are implementing decent enough programmes: the UN Development Programme's cash-for-work scheme, targeting 30,000 people, and the Indonesian army's effort to reopen a road along the devastated west coast, are good examples.
To drive home the benefits of the agency's programs, Mr. Bush pointed to two areas along a road, one unthinned and devastated and the other thinned and relatively unharmed.
ON THE road out to the devastated wasteland of flattened houses and factories where Manchester's civic leaders want to build a big, swanky sports stadium, the lamp posts are still adorned with the Olympic rings put up to support the city's doomed bid to host the 2000 games.
The incident began when a detachment of 98 officers from OMON -- a Russian version of SWAT teams -- set off in nine military trucks from the Russian military town of Mozdok along a fog-bound road for Grozny, the devastated Chechen capital that Russian forces took last month.
