"The road is gone and new cliffs have been formed," says Mette Petersen of the Danish Red Cross. "You do not see ruined villages because the villages have simply gone – the flood erased them." It will take years for the Swat to recover, as it will for the rest of Pakistan. Oil lamps now light the bazaars, as they did for thousands of years. Rebuilding mangled pylons and replacing cables will take weeks.