To: NYer
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.
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
I agree Brian, I too have been there for mission trips & the draw of the beautiful and spirited people is only blighted by the terrible situation of life they experience. It does break your heart.
I surely hope that our hospital ship is already steaming it’s way there (but doubt it) and that we will have many troops on the ground by morning.
Wish I could be there to help
20 posted on
01/12/2010 4:36:10 PM PST by
DollyCali
(Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
Prayers up. I am thinking of the many Haitians who work at my hospital. First reports were that a hospital had collapsed. I can't even imagine the loss of life and the facilities to treat the injured.
I also work with people from the Dominican Republic. Was that affected?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Petronski
22 posted on
01/12/2010 4:44:38 PM PST by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
Tens of thousands???...
Dear God...
23 posted on
01/12/2010 4:47:03 PM PST by
djf
(What has killed more people? 1) Guns in cars or 2) Cell phones in cars???? Do the math!!!!)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson