While the generals in Burma are still setting their faces against the amount of aid that people are trying to offer, at least overflying satellites are giving the world an idea of how widespread the problems are, and how deep they go.
The Google Earth blog has a listing of visualisations (including a Google Earth flythrough of the storm's path); you can also see hi-res pictures, free, at Unosat ("satellite solutions for all" - someone tell Private Eye).
Obviously, pictures don't help - but they do make it clear that the initial estimates of the scale of the problem were underestimated. Burma is home to about 47m people, and at least 1m have been displaced by this storm.
