7.3 Earthquake Devastates Impoverished Haiti

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 01/12/2010 | John G. Winder

[Patriot1259]

Immediately following the quake a Tsunami alert was issued for the Caribbean region including Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic. Aftershocks in excess of 5.0 have continued to hit the island.

Seventy per cent of Haiti's population lives on less than two dollars per day and half of its 8.5 million people are unemployed.

[PapaBear3625]

Correction to my last post — after looking further, it appears the US military does not have a significant presence there.

[HereInTheHeartland]

CNN says largest earthquake in their history.
This will be real bad; 10’s of thousands of deaths might be on the low side.

[Petronski]

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I've been on three medical missionary trips to Haiti. I just got off the phone with the Monsignor who I accompanied on two of those trips. Early word is that Port-Au-Prince is a dust bowl, that the non-reinforced brick structures just crumbled and turned to dust. No construction there is earthquake resistant. Monsignor expects death tolls to be in the tens of thousands.

This is very bad, folks. Please drop the jokes and just pray for these poor people.

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[ohiogrammy]

Nine thousand? Good grief! I wonder if they too eat mud sandwiches like the children of Haiti.

[Waco]

Good thing we got several trillion laying around gathering dust, which the commicrats can shovel in there, while taking a cut for themselves. Ain’t taxpayer money wunnerful? sarc

[silverleaf]

Check out Catholic Relief Services, usually they do a great job

[Mister Muggles]

Barak Obama doesnt care about black people!

[stbdside]

Not funny at all.

[Publius6961]

It is a crisis of culture ~ a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”.

I really wish many freepers were capable of focusing.

This is not about Chicago; or Philadelphia; or Cleveland; or East LA; or...

Never mind.

[Ax]

I was in my wife’s hospital room this evening in Boynton Beach, FL. She had just emerged from a successful breast cancer surgery procedure. We were watching the TV when the news of the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. There are many of the hospital staff that are from Haiti and still have family there. These poor people have no way of communicating with their families there. This is just catastrophic. They know that they can count on continuous flights of USAF C-130s arriving, carrying relief supplies. Hopefully, the US Navy will have relief ships operating in the area.

[stbdside]

The U.S. Navy could bring in their hospital ships (USNS Mercy/USNS Comfort).

[Petronski]

[Publius6961]

The news media doesn't mention our troop presence in Haiti.

Or any exit strategy whatsoever.

By the way, how are our troops in Bosnia doing? What's it been? 15 years?