SEOUL — As the death toll continued to rise from this week’s massive rainstorm in South Korea, the U.S. military on Friday was trying to get a handle on just how extensive the storm’s impact had been on its three bases in Dongducheon.

U.S. Army Garrison-Red Cloud spokesman Kevin Jackson said it was too early to put a dollar figure on the damage or say exactly when things would be back to normal at camps Casey, Hovey and Mobile, about 40 miles north of Seoul.

“We’re still working on that,” Jackson said, adding that Area I commander Col. Hank Dodge “expects and hopes a significant amount of progress is made today.”

“But, long-range, it will take some time,” Jackson said.

On Friday, power and water was still out at Camp Mobile — largely a warehouse facility — where a couple of hundred thousand dollars’ worth of supplies were ruined by flood waters, he said. Power, water and sewer service was gradually being restored to various areas affected at the nearby and adjacent camps Casey and Hovey, he said.

Crews had cleared roadway connecting the two bases that was partially covered by a 200-yard, 20-foot-deep debris field left from a landslide, Jackson said. However, there was still lots of clearing and cleaning left to be done where landslides left mud and debris covering the Casey swimming pool area, fieldhouse gym and roadways.

Another problem is that the wall surrounding parts of Casey has been breached in a number of places, forcing the base to either put up concertina wire or station soldiers to stand guard in those areas, he said.

“We have made a fair amount of progress (so far),” Jackson said. “But, clearly, it is going to take awhile to get all this cleaned up.”

Meanwhile, about 250 2nd Infantry Division soldiers from Camp Casey were deployed outside the base Friday to help with the cleanup in Dongducheon. Soldiers and some of their spouses went to work in perhaps the hardest hit area of the city, The Ville, the entertainment district across from Casey’s main gate that is home to dozens of “juicy bars.”

At the height of the storm, flood waters climbed as high as eight feet in some areas of The Ville. On Friday, the streets there were filled with waterlogged furniture and belongings that had either been discarded or were being dried out.

On Friday afternoon, authorities said at least 69 people had been killed or were missing due to flooding and landslides caused by three days of excessive rains across the peninsula.

The South Korean defense ministry said mines placed on a mountain in Seoul in the 1960s could have shifted could have shifted because of landslide, The Associated Press reported. Soldiers with metal detectors were waiting to search for the reported 10 mines that could have been pushed down Wumyeon Mountain in southern Seoul, defense officials said.

There were fears of land mines in northern provinces also hit by flooding and slides, prompting the Joint Chiefs of Staff to order mine-search operations where needed.

Separately, North Korea’s state media reported that heavy rains have hit much of the country and destroyed homes and buildings.