From a BBC collection of blog postings and independent reportage in the wake of cyclone Nardis's horrific strike on Burma:

A reporter for the Mizzima news site, based in India and run by Burmese exiles, interviewed some survivors.

Twelve-year-old Ma Ei Lay walked for days to the nearest township after her family perished in the storm. "I waded through the corpses and came back to my village. I could not recognise my own village. Only some trees were left without leaves."

"Those who found the corpses probably cut off the ears and hands to take the earrings and bracelets," he said. 

Her journey was through a wasteland with no food or aid. "I drank coconut milk. There was no water on the way."

An anonymous survivor talks about the psychological damage sustained. "Most of the people lost their family members while they were clinging to each other... Many people are traumatised and have a lost look on their face as if they are semi-unconscious."

The desperate situation in the delta is documented in other exile Burmese news sites such as Yoma3 which has heard of the spread of disease among the cyclone victims in Bogalay.

A resident of the south-western township of Kyonmange who is helping the cyclone victims there gave grisly detail to the Democratic Voice of Burma about corpses being found without ears and hands - interpreted as evidence of looting.