http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/...1095755651.html
Translation:
Haiti fears that the storm 'Jeanne' have caused the disappearance from the island The Tortoise
PORT PRINCE.- An expedition of the UN will be transferred today to the island of The Tortoise, in the north coast of Haiti, to evaluate the effects of the storm 'Jeanne'. The first helicopters of recognition have not been able to sight the island, where 26.000 persons live, and the authorities fear that it have disappeared by the strong surf caused by the storm. For the time being, already are more than 500 the dead persons in Haiti.
In a first recognition with helicopters the past Sunday, troops of the Mission of Stabilization of the United Nations (MINUSTAH) could not find the island, in which 26.000 persons reside, for which has themselves determined to send today a new expedition.
The Haitian prime minister, Gerard Latortue, will form possibly splits of that expedition.
The agency Haiti-Pressnetwork, that quotes to Latortue, reported today that is feared even that the island may have been able to disappear completely, owed al strong surf caused by the storm.
According to the same source, the Haitian minister of the Interior, Hérard Abraham, declared its worry by the luck that may have been able to run the inhabitants of The Tortoise, of 180 square kilometers.
The step of the storm "Jeanne" by Haiti the past Sunday has caused more than 500 deaths and hundreds of injured, according to the first balances that, according to the authorities of this country, are provisional and can result a lot more tragic as advance the hours.
The situation in the north of the country is disastrous, with hundreds of injured and thousands of dispossessed in the most absolute misery.
The northeast of the country has turned out the most affected zone, especially the city of Gonaives, where have been found the majority of corpses and where the water muddied barely left to see, still Monday, the ceilings of the houses, in which wait for to be rescued thousands of families.
Besides, the weather services have alerted of the evolution of another similar storm, 'Smooth', that would be able to arrive at the zone in some days.
"All the humane organizations have been mobilized to attend the most devastated regions", has said a spokesman of the Medical NGO Without Borders. Red cross has in these moments to five delegates in the zone, one of them Spanish, and anticipates to send other four more to do an evaluation of the effects of the storms
That Isalnd had 26,000 people on it...If it is gone it is a very sad day in human histroy...Jeanne may go down to be worst then the 1780 hurricane. I pray to god this is not true.
