tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20614275.post563050627166146442..comments2024-03-08T09:26:07.970+01:00Comments on ¡Esto es jauja!: As bad as expectedBigastroandbeyondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01149977986056620867noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20614275.post-60235976243946641572012-10-30T21:07:15.536+01:002012-10-30T21:07:15.536+01:00Poor Americans? Reputedly the richest country on t...Poor Americans? Reputedly the richest country on the planet.<br /><br />Of course we are all saddened by the devastaion which has caused their 'poor' country... but what about the likes of Haiti for example, one of the many countries to have been affected severely by the same hurricane?<br /><br />"On Monday, the scale of damage in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy became evident. Even though the storm’s center skirted the country, more than 20 inches of rain fell on Haiti’s south and southwest over four days last week, causing at least 52 deaths, tearing out crops and destroying houses.<br /><br />“We are facing a major crisis,” Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said this weekend after he flew over the regions that had been hit by the storm.<br /><br />"The (Haitian) government said that the homes of as many as 200,000 people had been damaged — on top of almost 400,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake. “We have a lot of work ahead of us in terms of the aid that we will need to deliver in the days, weeks and months to come,” Mr. Lamothe said. “It won’t be easy because there are many roads and bridges that have been cut off.”<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/world/americas/yet-another-blow-to-haiti-from-hurricane-sandy.htmlCharles Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02010619549109317042noreply@blogger.com