Any word from Haiti yet?
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Derek Ortt
Any word from Haiti yet?
Wondering if there has been any news from Haiti as of yet regarding the flooding that likely occurred there. Hope they fared better than expected
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/s ... 09,00.html
But Ernesto was blamed for the deaths of at least two people in Haiti, including a woman washed to sea from a tiny southern island on Sunday, the country's civil protection agency said Tuesday. No details were available on the second victim.
The storm weakened from a hurricane as it skirted Haiti's southern coast Sunday. It destroyed more than 200 homes in the impoverished country, wiped out banana crops and washed away a bridge linking the southern peninsula with the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Elisabeth Verlutyn, an emergency coordinator with the Pan American Health Organization, said Ernesto devastated poor people living in flimsy shacks along rivers and coastlines, including fishermen who lost their boats.
``One simple rainfall can put them back a few years,'' Verlutyn said. ``If this had happened on a well-developed Caribbean island, they would have been able to handle the rain.''
U.N. peacekeepers were working with local officials to ensure people hit by the storm were getting help, U.N. officials said.
The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, saw little damage compared with some past storms and no deaths or injuries were reported.
Nevertheless, flooding and landslides in the capital of Santo Domingo and nearby San Cristobal province damaged about 400 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,655 people.
The Dominican agriculture secretary said the heavy rains along the country's southern coast were beneficial, telling the newspaper El Caribe that the extra rainfall would be good for crops after a relatively dry summer.
But Ernesto was blamed for the deaths of at least two people in Haiti, including a woman washed to sea from a tiny southern island on Sunday, the country's civil protection agency said Tuesday. No details were available on the second victim.
The storm weakened from a hurricane as it skirted Haiti's southern coast Sunday. It destroyed more than 200 homes in the impoverished country, wiped out banana crops and washed away a bridge linking the southern peninsula with the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Elisabeth Verlutyn, an emergency coordinator with the Pan American Health Organization, said Ernesto devastated poor people living in flimsy shacks along rivers and coastlines, including fishermen who lost their boats.
``One simple rainfall can put them back a few years,'' Verlutyn said. ``If this had happened on a well-developed Caribbean island, they would have been able to handle the rain.''
U.N. peacekeepers were working with local officials to ensure people hit by the storm were getting help, U.N. officials said.
The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, saw little damage compared with some past storms and no deaths or injuries were reported.
Nevertheless, flooding and landslides in the capital of Santo Domingo and nearby San Cristobal province damaged about 400 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,655 people.
The Dominican agriculture secretary said the heavy rains along the country's southern coast were beneficial, telling the newspaper El Caribe that the extra rainfall would be good for crops after a relatively dry summer.
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Good news that nothng catastrofic occured in Haiti and the Dominican Republic only those 2 deaths.
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