After bouncing, sloshing and skidding alongthemainstreet for another 10 minutes, we reached the two-room, thatch-and-metal-roofed CBT office, where a smiling young man named Sokoun Kit greeted us.
Mr. Berti, 54 years old, said all the stores alongthemainstreet of Davis were closed Tuesday and only pickup trucks with four-wheel drive were braving secondary roads.