Posted on 08/14/2021 8:16:43 AM PDT by Hojczyk
USGS has estimated “thousands of fatalities” and “tens of thousands of injuries in poor mountainous communities."
“High casualties are probable and the disaster is likely widespread,” a statement from the agency released around an hour after the quake said.
"Past events with this alert level have required a national or international level response."
Jerry Chandler, Haiti's director of civil protection, confirmed deaths had occurred but said he doesn't "yet have an exact toll."
"We're still collecting information," he told AFP.
CHURCH CRUMBLES DURING CEREMONY
Images posted to social media also showed significant damage to buildings including collapsed homes and rubble splayed across the road.
A church reportedly collapsed under the strain of the quake in the southwestern town of Les Anglais while a ceremony was apparently underway.
Economic losses could range in the tens of millions, USGS reports.
The country is still recovering from a magnitude 7 earthquake closer to the capital 11 years ago that killed at least 250,000 people, injured 300,000, and displaced more than 1.5 million.
"Everyone is really afraid. It's been years since such a big earthquake," Daniel Ross, a resident in the eastern Cuban city of Guantanamo, told Reuters, adding that his home stood firm but the furniture shook.
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I agree. There are a small number of people who are gleeful when a disaster happens to blacks, especially.
Pray for the people of Haiti.
Did the Dominican Republic get their border wall finished in time?
Those people in that church deserved it because the Clintons were corrupt.
Why can't more people see that?
I feel sick thinking about the church that collapsed with people inside it.
Folks please donate to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary, Bill, and Senator Menendez are committed to helping the children of Haiti. They could use your help. Remember, “it is for the children.” sarc
Didn’t say they were poor. In fact the ones who save the money they earn working on farms could live like kings back in Haiti. I think after they leave our region they go to Michigan. At least when I use to handle payroll on the farm they followed the crops that way.
We just had a 7.2 in Alaska a week or two ago. Didn’t do much more than rattle houses nearby.
Can’t imagine anyone taking care of a gravesite of a violent and horrible person. No way no how. Speaking of virtue signaling! I just call it pure idiocy!
That looks like a reinforced building missing some critical reinforcement ties. Like surface bonded walls without shear reinforcement or corner ties or something like that. Look how well the upper story held up!
Can’t the lawyers sue the earthquake?
My mom’s father side of the family settled in Haiti. French silver smiths. During the revolution got the first boat they could heading out of Dodge. Settled in Philadelphia. Thibault silver very sought after. Several piece in Philadelphia Art Museum. They lost their shirts in Depression of late 1800’s.
Been there on two mission trips. There are a lot of good people there as well. They need our prayers.
My church has made Haiti its pet project for years. I can’t tell you how many thousands of dollars, time, resources, mission trips, etc. have been given by our congregation — and for what?? I have refused to give any money to this “project”. Haiti was and still is a hell-hole. Things are just as bad now, if not worse than ever before, and it won’t change.
If Hillary’s brother is still in charge, no worries!/s.
Also, though there are probably some Christians there, Haiti has been under demonic control for centuries, due to voodoo and other forms of devil worship; places like that are in the hands of a lying, devastating devil...sort of like is happening in Africa, as well as our own country, now that we can barely be considered a Christian nation.
What isn't debatable is how nasty the victorious slaves were to their former owners. Those who didn't manage to flee were hunted down and slaughtered over the ensuing months. Initially, that included people of mixed race, before they figured out that it would leave almost nobody alive to do the work necessary to run an independent country.
They also invaded their neighbor (today's Dominican Republic) in an unsuccessful attempt to annex them. The carnage was so brutal and nasty that the United States joined every other civilized country of the world in demanding reparations as a price to be readmitted and recognized as a sovereign nation with whom trade would be conducted.
Haitian apologists still use this as the main excuse as to why they are still poor more than two centuries after independence.
Wow! So you take care of the gravesite of a horrible violent Haitian. That absolve you of your “whitey guilt”?
Virtue has been signaled 🙄
“And he throws down the racist card!”
Wake up
That is a great bit of history! It’s always puzzled me about the French colonies …the French brought a lot of great things with them, in terms of skills, tradition and art, but for some reason they weren’t that good at the colonial political details. Of course, France was going through some difficult moments at the time.
Glad your family made it to safety, and the next time I’m in Philadelphia, I will make it a point to go and check this out. I live in Florida, and the 17th\18th century Spanish silver that was found here (it had been buried and hidden when St Augustine was being attacked by the British) is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They never display it. They did loan us a couple of the less important pieces for the 450th anniversary.
The silver was donated to them by an heir, IIRC, because the Boston Museum was one of the first public museums in the US and I think the family had a Massachusetts connection. Strange how life works out!
Well
I worked in Haiti and lived at the long ago pancaked Hotel Montana in Petionville up above Port Au Prince late 80s into early 90s
Coup leaders post Duvalier
Avril
Namphy
Manigot
The lady who’s name escapes me now up till that prick Aristides
I did deals with the Mourras, Bricourts, Marsdens and my favorite Jean Claude Verdier who is now very prominent there
I owned ships then
Haiti is a harsh reality....
The truth lies between your appalled sensibilities and the callous comments
Many Haitians work their asses off...just to fetch water each day
If you don’t fend for yourself there you die.
Admittedly it’s been a cruel joke since they foolishly and ultra brutally massacred their white and mulatto masters ...
It’s hopeless
Maybe if the western world put Butch Stewart in charge and tons of cash and developed the coast lines ....it’s got great spots
But Butch just died and most of the nation is denuded and do Haitians want to be hotel workers...etc
It’s very very deeply complicated and bares harsh realities about civilization parity few anywhere acknowledge anymore
The truth went the way of appreciation for Johnny Weismuller’s polemics
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