parliament building 
palace 
a cathedral there 
delmas st 
Posted on 01/12/2010 6:25:04 PM PST by Sleeping Freeper
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A powerful earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing the presidential palace and raising fears of substantial casualties in what the country’s U.S. ambassador called “a major disaster.”
President René Garcia Préval was reported to be safe, but Radio Metropole of Port-au-Prince, the capital, quoted a government official as saying there were “certainly dozens of deaths.”
A reporter for the Reuters news agency in Port-au-Prince said he saw dozens of dead and injured people in the rubble, which blocked streets in the city.
Numerous public buildings were destroyed along with the palace, including the parliament building, the Finance Ministry, The Public Works Ministry, the Palace of Justice and Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Port-au-Prince, the national cathedral, Haiti TV reported.
A local employee for the U.S. charity Food for the Poor said more buildings were destroyed than were left standing along Delmas Road, a major thoroughfare in the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
With no infrastructure and no emergency first responders, I’d say 100K deaths is a possibility.
HAITI EARTHQUAKE: ‘There Must Be Thousands Dead’
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/major-earthquake-hits-haiti-tsunami-watch-issued/story?id=9544984
If the physical damage is that great, I'd say that would be closer that the 'dozens' in the story.
As if Haiti were not a big enough $hithole already.
How much money have we poured into Haiti over the decades??
Talked with a friend who has done missionary work there....Her estimate is the same as yours 100,000s.
Took me a few moments to realize what appears to be fog was dust from collapsed buildings.
I guess God couldn’t think of any other way to get rid of the damned place ...
By the way, hasn't almost 12 hours passed already? Where is the aid? Where are the emergency personnel? Where are the ships with water purification capabilities. Where are the doctors, nurses, firefighters, etc.?
parliament building palace a cathedral there delmas st
It's been about 4 and a half hours, and I don't even want to imagine what aid workers will have to deal with there.
“nube de concreto” is one of the descriptions in the video.
Cloud of concrete.
He does care doesn't he?
Much of Twitter traffic from there was about the concrete turning into dust.
I think I’m going to leave politics out of it until the dying stops.
Air drops of water would be the first requirement.
Doubtful it would be safe to drive into that country.
This is a disaster of a terrible magnitude.
Even Cuba could help...doctors...airlift of supplies...organized forces on the ground. Dogs.
Tomorrow the news will be most horrible.
If the US has a heart, we will respond to the best of our ability. It's our own backyard...Monroe Doctrine and all. We claim it, we own it.
They are going to have to come in through the DR, the ports in Haiti are likely unusable at this point. Water is essential, but rubble recovery is target one at this point. Rescue at night in the debris field that was Port-au-prince is going to be a nightmare.
Help should have already been on the way hours ago. It’s not like we don’t know something about earthquakes.
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