Experience what rain can do in the tropics

[bvigal]

Most of the Caribbean islands are volcanic in origin - steep, lots of rock, some with active volcanoes, all with routine seismic activity. The following video is from Haiti during rains from Gustav, then Hanna. Experience it for yourself! Be sure to run to the end, to see the 5 feet of deposited rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC4yZCcCrhE

[somethingfunny]

Whoa. And that was just during Gustav? (FGHI) Pray for Haiti. I don't know what they could even do to prevent this from happening again and again. It's not like you can just replant an entire country's forests and hope the seedlings don't get washed away if something like THAT happens again next year or the year after.

[bvigal]

Whoa. And that was just during Gustav? (FGHI) Pray for Haiti. I don't know what they could even do to prevent this from happening again and again. It's not like you can just replant an entire country's forests and hope the seedlings don't get washed away if something like THAT happens again next year or the year after.

Well, it was Gustav and Hanna, they were almost together. Yes, Haiti is definitely most at risk, due to deforestation. But don't forget, a retaining wall in St. Vincent colapsed on a road, catching a passing car and killed a woman. The amount of concrete, rock (boulders) and mud hid the car until they started clearing the slide. That was not due to deforestation, just the features of the Caribbean islands combined with lots of rain. My point was to illustrate why we here in the Caribbean have so much concern for slow-moving tropical waves and tropical depressions, because they can cause as much damage/deaths as high winds from hurricanes.

[O Town]

Holy mackerel, thats insane. Whats that, about 5 feet of rock deposit?
Lets hope they can get back to where they were before this season and pray next season and seasons that follow spare them enough to return to normal. They just had a really bad go of it this year.