Per WFTV thousands of Haitians will be brought to Florida ASAP. The locals just got the word and are not sure how they can integrate them into the social services. I just heard it on the 11:00 news and there is no link.
...
Voodoo, a mix of African religions and Roman Catholicism, is central to Haitian life and is widely observed in some form. The religion often has been wrongly associated with black magic or sorcery, leaving a lingering stereotype against its followers.
But suggestions that survivors are stacking corpses outside Port-au-Prince hospitals because they are waiting for a Voodoo ceremony is inaccurate, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, an expert on Haitian Voodoo, also spelled Vodou, in the department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
‘’None of what the Brazilian authorities say makes any sense,’’ Bellegarde-Smith said in a Thursday e-mail. ‘’They are absolutely wrong! Most Haitians, though they believe in Vodou, are devoted Catholics or Protestants.’’
...
my kids have been annoying me today. At least they are alive to annoy me. I think I will go snuggle with them as they go to sleep.