Posted on 01/12/2010 2:22:15 PM PST by Pyro7480
A major magnitude 7.3 quake hit the impoverished country of Haiti Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The epicentre of the quake, which was initially reported a magnitude 7.0 off the coast, was located inland, six miles (10 km) west of Carrefour, close to the capital Port-au-Prince and was only 20.5 miles (30 km) deep. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere....
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Wow...
Some of my roommates in college were from Haiti. Despite some of the comment on this thread, they were the nicest, most honest, most Christian people I had ever met.
I’ve unfortunately lost contact with them in the 10 years since I graduated. I do hope that they are safe!
Some of the stories they shared with me about the absolute squalor and poverty that they grew up in was heartbreaking.
Yours is the hissy fit of a child. Maybe those posts do not belong in a disaster thread, but Haiti is a human disaster, and has been since the Indians were wiped out and became a slave state till this very day.
You are correct.
They're also racist.
Overcapacity! LOL good grief
I’m not as smart as you so could you please define “racist” and how it applies in that exchange?
I have done so.
Some of the twitter posts are insane.
Talk about no emergency people out etc.
http://twitter.com/fredodupoux
Particularly interesting...this person says MINUSTAH, the
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, has people in their trucks not doing a dang thing.
We need to send General Honore and his boys down there, stat!
Isn’t that the truth? The Army and Marines can deal with this better than anyone- they know logistics.
This is a nightmare.
Unfortunately General Honore retired from the Army.
No sir you excused liberal failures with your multi-cult rant about the sanctity of a failed society with a failed culture. No thanks, good day
Remedial reading solutions are available from private contractors and public agencies. I suggest you get help.
No excuse for the guys sitting in their truck.
But - in a disaster like this it WILL be a long time before lots of people see any professional aid. That is why folks need to be prepared. The old rule was to be prepared for 3 days. A push is on to make it 5 or 7 days. Not that it matters much as most folks don’t plan for making it a day and a half without having to go to the store.
With such large-scale damage, infrastructure gone, no communications, etc. - you’re going to be on your own (and with your neighbors) for quite some time. Even in a modern city. Much less so in PauP with one road into the city from what I’ve heard. (A road that no doubt needs to have new bridges built, landslides removed, etc. before it can be used). Although I hear the airport is okay. Except for no communications! (Pilot to pilot radio to keep some planes in and out of there.)
TWITTER:
RT @Haitifeed: RT @yatalley: the road from Port-au-prince to jacmel is cut and there’s no way to pass...even on a rhino or a motorcycle.
9 minutes ago from web
Looked at a map, an the town of Jacmel is on the south side of the island. Looks like from PauP to Jacmel there are two different roads they could use. Looks like a third road leads out of PauP to the east. (So three main routes in and out of PauP).
Here's the Operation Blessings International link, if you'd like to give through them: http://community.ob.org/site/PageServer
Re: “My wife and I did Labadee with Royal Carribean. Nice enough, I suppose, but it was pointed out that Labadee was essentially privately owned, and definitely NOT the real Haiti.
Some folks who did the shopping thing said the same thing about the merchants—pushy and intimidating.”
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Yes, I, too, was on Royal Caribbean — we saw the kids in little broken down kayaks yelling and begging for ‘change’ from passengers high above the water when we pulled in —
When we were leaving in the late afternoon, we spied small boats carrying Labadee’s ‘day workers’ back to the REAL Haiti since no one lives right there at the cruise stop. It was a pathetic sight and one I have no desire to see again.
Re: “EDIT: “10:1 zero in a bid to be Presidential, sends troops.”
“As in never let a crisis go to waste. Low risk high visibility “action” on his part.”
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Yep — while it is right nice of Zero to rally ‘round this worthy cause, I can guarantee you if this had happened in, say, St. Bart’s, he would have said NOTHING about it.
RE: “Concrete has good compressive strength but no tensile or shear strength. The rebar is strong in the directions that concrete isn’t.”
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Agree — as one who went thru the ‘71 Sylmar and ‘94 Northridge quakes near L.A., I can attest to the fact that rebar is helpful.
All the newer building codes make it possible to better survive a bad quake, but there are no guarantees that properties will still be livable.
Here in L.A., wood fences and chain link stayed up in quakes, block walls without reinforcement crumbled into rubble.
The events you listed in your reply are signs for what will happen during the Tribulation. After these events, and after Armageddon, Christ will return and set up His kingdom.
In Matthew 24, after being asked by the disciples what the signs of His coming would be, Jesus told them, among many other signs, "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.
Then, in Luke 21, after giving the disciples the signs of His return, He says, But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh., speaking of the Rapture.
The fact that those signs are now happening, all at once, tells us that the Tribulation is near.
The fact that all the signs are in place for the Tribulation period, including the announcement a few weeks ago by the new European Union president that global government is established as of November, 2009, tells us that that time is at the door.
Thanks! That’s it!
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