7.0 earthquake hits Haiti, death toll may reach 200,000

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This is really sad. I have aunts and cousins over there still. Can't get in touch with any of them. Many of my workers are crying and also worried about family over there.
 
It's really sad this won't get much attention until the death toll and more images of the tragedy start coming out...
 
Terrible situation and my thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by the earthquake, but hopefully good will come from this and Haiti will turn its shit around.
 
internal email from Food for the Poor..

Things are hectic here at Food For The Poor...we are doing our best to get efforts moving. The situation is desperate. Please direct anyone you know who wants to help to http://www.foodforthepoor.org/haitiquake

Please read the email at the bottom from Father Duken Augustin. It explains the situation first-hand.


Hi all
I will try to send out an update twice a day


An update on Haiti

Kareen Dolce our Executive Director of Haiti is here in our Florida Office, She will be departing this afternoon on a military airplane around 3 pm along with some staff members from our Florida office so that we can get in and deal with situation.

Our FFP Office was damaged, front part of building all walls collapsed, the Chapel and wall to warehouse collapsed, no one was hurt. Admin offices lots of damages, still sketchy wont know until Kareen goes back to Haiti re situation of building.

People are in the streets they don't want to go back into any buildings

Hospital cannot accept anymore people it is at its capacity

All phone lines are down, we can not get in contact except through internet such as through magic Jack

No Electricity, No Water

We need massive amount of collections, direct all to our website, we need to raise about 5 Million to buy Zinc and Lumber to rebuild homes, we are sending over 250 Containers of emergency supplies

We heard that CNN retracted that the Hotel Montana was damaged and that it was the Christophe
Hotel that was damaged

We have a Mission group of 12 Students and 2 Faculty advisors from Lynn University at the Hotel Montana with Leann Chong our Director of Missions they were at the hotel from 4 pm yesterday during the Earthquake. We have not been able to be in contact.

Rachmani Domersant works in our GIK office he is an hour out of Port-au-Prince, he is trying to go to Hotel Montana to find out situation and he has a Magic Jack he will have to travel back and then get on internet and report to us of the situation, as soon as we get this report we will let you know

Joe Serra from our International Partnership office here in FL, is in Haiti on a business trip, he is staying at the Hotel Caribe and we have had no word from him, we are also having Rachmani try and get in touch with him.


Attached is an updated press release with much information, please use this e-mail to inform those that need to know about situation in Haiti

From: duken augustin
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:08 PM
To:
Subject: Haiti earthquake

Dear ,
After our conversation over the phone, I haven't even hung up the phone when everything started shaking around me in the house. It was terrible. I prayed...
The whole country is in state of shock. No phone service, Thank God we are safe and the Internet is working. But, Port-au-prince has gotten a lot of damages. As far as Cap-Haitien is concerned, we dont have the estimate yet since it is raining heavily. It is dark. The whole city is covered with water, the people of Prolonge swamp for instance dont know what to do. Hopefully, tomorrow, I will be able to give you an idea of what is going on. However, this is a very tragic situation. We already have so many problems that we are unable to resolve after the devastation brought by the four hurricanes of 2008, there are so much suffering waiting to be addressed that this earthquake is really too much. A total disaster.
We hoped that we would be able to make it but no way. No brake. No chance. We will have to deal with new needs, new sufferings, new situation of hunger, new despair, new devastation.
Consequently, we will have to turn to you for help since we have noone else to turn to.
Thank you for understanding
Fr Duken
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Yeah,

This is sad. I feel like such a deusch. I have aunts, uncles and cousins, and I don't really keep in contact with them. I'm having to go through another aunt to find out info.

One of my aunt's sad her roof caved in.

I went to that site and donated. I'm in the military and wish I could volunteer for the humanitarian mission there.
 
hundreds of thousands? isn't it a bit early to call such large numbers? either way this is totally fucked. i can't believe this is only on its 4th page now.
 
btkadams said:
hundreds of thousands? isn't it a bit early to call such large numbers? either way this is totally fucked. i can't believe this is only on its 4th page now.
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Yeah, I don't know how they can already say hundreds of thousands, I hope they are wrong.


p.s. 2nd page for us superior GAF browsers.
 
Wow i clicked one of those links and had to close out, seeing all those dead people..... no words. I'll definitly be donating some money this weekend. I really hope the estimated death toll is an exaggeration.
 
Wow, this is really sad. "Hundreds of Thousands" seems like a crazy number to be able to confirm so early too. :(
 
DOO13ER said:
Shit, hundreds of thousands?....
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I totally believe it. The majority of Haiti is based around a mountain of houses on top of houses. Most with VERY poor construction. If the Imperial Palace has collapsed, I don't think the small shanty towns have done too well. The quake hit in Haiti's most populated city. It's like a quake going off in New York in comparison. The bulk of the population lives there.
 
tapedeck said:
Wow, this is really sad. "Hundreds of Thousands" seems like a crazy number to be able to confirm so early too. :(
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if the palace collapsed like this i can say 95% of the buildings in the City are down. That number is a sad but good "guesstimate"
 
tapedeck said:
Wow, this is really sad. "Hundreds of Thousands" seems like a crazy number to be able to confirm so early too. :(
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Which probably means it's at least that (see early estimates for the tsunami).
 
Man, I just flew back from the Caribbean just two days ago too - and I'm only hearing about this now...

I have a few friends with family in Haiti, most of them going way back - one of them apparently can't get through to Haiti, dunno if he got through now...

I don't like to over-state things and blow them out of proportion, but just from seeing and reading in the last 30 minutes, it's a straight-up disaster.

Only thing I can call it after reading that a hospital AND a prison (don't know if it's the ONLY prison) collapsed and convicts escaped. My goodness.

My prayers go out to those out there.

MThanded said:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.earthquake/index.html
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Insane.
 
The population of Port-au-Prince is about 1-1.1 million. If the palace fell apart, you can imagine most buildings and most houses also collasped. In many cases, with people inside. 10% of the population dead (100k) ? Might be a bit high. I heard there was about 100 police officers from Quebec in Haiti and they are all safe apparently. I know it's just a sample, and police officers were more likely outside and not inside. But hundreds of thousands is premature. Tens of thousands is more likely. Still terrible.
 
blame space said:
horrible tragedy. you can donate $10 to the Red Cross relief effort by texting HAITI to 90999.
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Is this reliable? I don't want my money being held up due to some BS crap.

>:(
 
Man, I can't even imagine what these people must be going through. I went through a baby earthquake in Los Angeles when I lived there and it nearly made me wet myself. I moved very shortly afterward and that one didn't even cause damage.
 
CNN says at least 100,000 have died, but say there could be hundreds of thousands more. Insane. I don't know how something like this can happen out of the blue.
 
daw840 said:
Yeah, I don't know how they can already say hundreds of thousands, I hope they are wrong.


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i keep it to the default so that if i make a thread, it seems like i have more pages of replies. yay!!
 
Scary thing is I was just in Haiti around Xmas time...can't imagine how bad it is there. Some of those buildings are pretty wussy
 
So much money has been donated and never went to those who need it...

This country is so corrupted I really doubt any money will actually reach the population.
 
Over 100,000 dead? My mom's already buried her mom and husband in the past five years. I don't know if she can handle a third death.
 
Forkball said:
CNN says at least 100,000 have died, but say there could be hundreds of thousands more. Insane. I don't know how something like this can happen out of the blue.
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That's generally how earthquakes happen.

The situation really stinks, best wishes to all who have family there.
 
Cereal KiIIer said:
So much money has been donated and never went to those who need it...

This country is so corrupted I really doubt any money will actually reach the population.
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thats why im sticking with Red Cross and Yele for now
 
BattleMonkey said:
Cut a little of your spending this week, don't buy that new video game, eat out less, whatever you can do to help out these people.

http://newsroom.redcross.org/2010/01/12/disaster-alert-earthquake-in-haiti/

Donating to help is really easy, just send a text message to the red cross and your phone company will add $10 charge to your bill automatically, can't get any easier than this.
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Thank you. That's what I came into this thread to find. It's a horrible tragedy, and I hope they get enough money to help.
 
WTF...the destruction is beyond belief! Fuck...I have served in several peacekeeping operations and whatever but this...just total destruction...never seen anything like it.

50€ send through Red Cross...it's something at least...
 
Cimarron said:
Wow this is obsolutely horrific! Over 30 aftershocks!!?!

I have to say that I am dissapointed in the lack of interest in this thread. *shakes head* But then again its a poor black country. On top of that its Haiti. I'm going to go donate some money right now.
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Not just small aftershocks either, they're all hovering around the 4.0-4.5 mark. It's pretty amazing, coming from the west coast of North American, earthquakes are always gripping for me. But the death toll and damage here is really astonishing. :(
 
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