There was more rain in Bago, and in Mawlamyine, about 100 miles southeast of Yangon, there was heavy rain and very high winds, but nothing that seemed dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Further north, large tracts of forest have been cut, including the gorges of the Thanlwin (Salween) River where it enters the Andaman Sea at Mawlamyine, an area that once harbored many local or endemic species of orchids, begonias, and other herbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myanmar coastal rain forests] Reference

Thursday I traveled to Bago and Friday to Mawlamyine, Myanmar’s third largest city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Grawng of Mandalay, Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray of Mawlamyine and retired Bishop Joseph Mahn Eri of Pathein.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

Without any access to English-language news I was utterly unaware of the extent of the storm’s damage until Sunday when I took a bus from Mawlamyine back to Bago and then another bus to Nyaungshwe in East-Central Myanmar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference