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Haiti flood death toll rises to 2,400
Reuters in Gonaives
Wednesday September 29, 2004
The Guardian
More than a week after devastating floods hit northern Haiti, aid workers are still struggling to feed thousands of people and the death toll continues to rise as reports come in from outlying areas.
The estimated toll from the floods triggered by tropical storm Jeanne rose to about 2,400 after a parish priest reported a "total disaster" in small towns in Poteau, a region outside Gonaives.
In Gonaives, young men grabbed food from an aid convoy and others robbed women for bags of rice.
Aid workers, backed by armed UN peacekeepers, increased the number of distribution points for emergency supplies in the port city of 200,000 people, but still faced tense crowds.
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Originally posted by Chuck Stevenson
This says it all!
Rebels!
Originally posted by The Vagabond
OK, well it's still there. Sorry to disappoint everyone. It's still been a hell of a hurricane season.
These storms just keep finding their way to Florida, even when they shouldn't. Since when does a storm in the gulf hook for Florida? It should have hit the southern coast or Texas. Ivan did a big friggin circle and hit twice! Jeanne started to drift away, it did a circle out at sea, crossed it's own path, and came back in on exactly the same place that Ivan hit.
Who wants to make a wager? I'm starting to think that Florida will get ALL of the hurricanes that hit the US this season- I'm guessing at least 1 more, maybe 2 or who knows how many.
Something has changed. Is it the Atlantic Current? Global Warming? HAARP? I dunno. I just know that this feels like the virtual reality release of "The Day After Tomorrow".
Originally posted by Amelia
Listen...I'm a bit worried here...The hurricane in Ha�ti is a VERY big DISASTER o.k! This is something that every country should show on the news...there are like more than 2000 persons who are dead and everything is completely ruined. Ha�ti is the poorest country in America and now they are in deep problems. Who helps them?!! Where I come from QU�BEC, they made a big fund raising to help them, special reports on t.v, it's something everybody talks about here! Americans don't give a crap about poor little ''nobodys'' who live in Ha�ti. Why?! In America there was a hurrican and it was like a major catastrophy but in Ha�ti, it's 10X worst! I'm so glad I live in a country that CARES for poor countries!!!!
Send love to ha�tians
Ameliaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Originally posted by Mr No One
Originally posted by Amelia
Americans don't give a crap about poor little ''nobodys'' who live in Ha�ti. Why?! In America there was a hurrican and it was like a major catastrophy but in Ha�ti, it's 10X worst! I'm so glad I live in a country that CARES for
Not living in the US, how can you say that we don't give a crap about this situation.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Originally posted by Mr No One
Originally posted by Amelia
Americans don't give a crap about poor little ''nobodys'' who live in Ha�ti. Why?! In America there was a hurrican and it was like a major catastrophy but in Ha�ti, it's 10X worst! I'm so glad I live in a country that CARES for
Not living in the US, how can you say that we don't give a crap about this situation.
I'm getting just a little sick of snot-nosed, self-righteous Canadians bashing the US at every opportunity.
Here, Amelia, do some research and you will learn that the US has been bailing Haiti out of trouble for the better part of a hundred years, if not longer.
www.google.com...
Check out these statistics on what the US puts out in Foreign Aid.
www.google.com...
www.google.com...
Originally posted by Amelia
I SAID I'M SORRY....I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are goin to forgive me???? I'm just over devastated by the world misery
Please don't hate canadians (I'm french canadian actually)
here's his reply:
From what I can gather, if there was an earthquake around the time of the
tropical storm, it was minor and would not have caused any damage, let
alonge a tsunami. Believe me, if something drastic happened, the news media
would have been all over it!
dn
Originally posted by worldwatcher
Okay I finally got a reply regarding this story from Don Noe, Local10 meteorologist.
www.local10.com...
here's his reply:
From what I can gather, if there was an earthquake around the time of the
tropical storm, it was minor and would not have caused any damage, let
alonge a tsunami. Believe me, if something drastic happened, the news media
would have been all over it!
dn
haitisupport.gn.apc.org...
21 September - The government delegate for the North-West, Henry Max T�lus, has denied rumours going round Port-au-Prince that the island of La Tortue is submerged by flood-waters. He said that La Tortue was not hit by floods and that only bodies washed up on the shore from the mainland had been found. The delegate took the opportunity to deplore the fact that he had no means to help those effected by the disaster, adding that only one lorry carrying food had reached the department. (AHP)
Originally posted by Hellmutt
[I found the quake. It has a new link instead of the old one.
They even had a better zoomed picture (below) :
neic.usgs.gov...
Originally posted by MattMarriott
Originally posted by Hellmutt
[I found the quake. It has a new link instead of the old one.
They even had a better zoomed picture (below) :
neic.usgs.gov...