Depressing: How Events are outpacing actions
The scale of the earthquake seems to have overtaken all initial aid efforts...outside the primary disaster zone..in the peripheral areas of Battagram, Kohistan and Shangla as well as deeper in AJK..there has been almost no direct aid received, the bulk of the efforts have been volunteer driven. While people in the comparatively unaffected areas that I have spoken to have suddenly realised that their own houses have suffered fairly severe structural damage (and are now living out in the open while the temperature drops every day) and that there has been no news from friends living in more isolated areas higher up..
While the aid effort should reach soon, sadly in these kind of natrual disasters, even a day is effectively a death sentence.