Later, when our helicopter landed, we saw roads buried under rockslides, as well as schools and bridges washed away into riverbeds, while the residents of settlements that were flooded by barrier lakes had fled for their lives, leaving the scattered buildings as desolate as a ghost town.
降落山區之後，只見公路被亂石土堆掩埋，學校、橋樑沖落溪底，遭堰塞湖潰決襲擊的村落，居民倉皇逃難，斷垣殘壁宛如鬼城。