Steve Herman, a reporter for Voice of America who was permitted to visit the flood zone earlier this week, said: "We saw loudspeaker trucks calling out work crews, we saw people out on the streets with ox carts, push carts, army vehicles, crews with some uniform personnel loaded in the back of dump trucks, people out on the roads trying to repair the infrastructure as quickly as they can. The lights were on and off in Hyangsan where we were, but there were thunderstorms going on at that time."