No, it is because the victims are all dead. It is now a recovery operation. They are just finding bodies now and are going to start using bulldozers. Someone waited too long to green-light all of the rescue teams. The earthquake happened on Tuesday and we are just now getting in gear. We just called up some transport units and the ready reserve ships over the weekend. They will not be on the scene until next week. this will turn out to be the same thing as Katrina, too little help sent in the first wave.
Here’s some tweets that I just pulled up. So some survivors ARE still under the rubble. But obviously every hour that goes by the odds go down. Unless they happen to be stuck in a grocery store.
But with only a limited amount of airport use, distribution routes - #%&*@ the U.N. that is in charge of that - etc., you also need all the other supplies in to keep those that ARE out and relatively healthy alive.
I loved the reports from the hospitals where they fix someone up. BUT - when they send them out, where do they go? Do they have food and water, go to someplace where they can recuperate? I doubt it. They probably get patched up and then tossed back out to someone try to survive. Good odds for dieing I would think without some extended care (in this case, maybe a glass of water and a slice of bread a day).
Here’s some of the tweets:
There are still a lot of students and teachers still alive under the debris of GOC University in Nazon. @RedCross about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck
RT @InternetHaiti RT @ladyofproverb31:RT @karljeanjeune: MARTINE PIERRE ALIVE UNDR RUBBLS @ UNIVERSIT CARAIBS DELMAS 29 WTH OTHERS
RT @MelyMello: @rachellehoude Los Angeles Search+Res says search dogs have detected 2 survivors inside Unibank Bldg in PauP. #HAITI about 5 hours ago from web
RT abckatesnow still hope for survivors! Miami Dade search and rescue at a hospital with 2 year old Carla on a stretcher. Just pulled out about 3 hours ago from web