Haiti Post - Earthquake in Pictures

[eekipoo]

Well i just called Salvation Army on Henry St and they said yes it's true. Just bring whatever you want Clothes,, food stuff and Financial aid to them and they will pack it for Shipping any other questions contact them at

131-133 Henry Street
P.O. Box 248
Port Of Spain, Trinidad.
Telephone: (868) 625-4120
Fax (868) 625-4179

BELMONT
54 Tragarette Road
Port of Spain
Tel : (868) 623-2547


TOBAGO
Dutch Fort Road
P.O. Box 13
Scarborough
Telephone: (868) 639-3406

SAN FERNANDO KINDERGARTEN
33 Coffee Street
San Fernando
Telephone: (868) 652-2575


PORT OF SPAIN CENTRAL
106 Charlotte Street
Port of Spain, Trinidad
Tel (868) 623-5789
Outpost : John John Mapland


SANGRE GRANDE
Eastern Main Road
Sangre Grande
Tel: (868) 668-5673



GEDDES HOUSE
24-26 Duncan Street
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Tel: (868) 623-5700

TRAGARETTE KINDERGARTEN
54 Tragarette Road
Port of Spain
Telephone: (868) 622-9504

TUNAPUNA
36 Eastern Main Road
Tunapuna
Telephone: (868) 663-965

[UML]

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[UML]

well cancel beyonce and send d $10 million

[Monk BANzai]

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dammm...imagine yu now drive off the housing complex and left yuh family in there and that happen...

thing to drive yuh mad yes!!!!!

[Aaron 2NR]

eekipoo, thanx for the info...ill get some more stuff sorted out when i get home and drop it off tomorrow

[UML]

i was wondering tuh wahm tuh d vehicle dat was speeding across

u actually seeing the buildign behind collapse

man jump out he vehicle and run oui

[UML]

ah wonder if any banks collapse

[JoKeR1980]

ok fine planes can't land...wey all de ships, helicopters and aircraft carriers?

trying to find bin laden

[JoKeR1980]

UPS IS SHIPPING TO HAITI FOR FREE TOMORROW UNDER 50LBS.... Clothing and food drives at all United Way and Salvation Army. Please pass along

confirmed that this is not true, at least from Trinidad

eekipoo, state your source. UPS people have no idea about this...and they kinah vex as well

[buzz]

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WDMC

[White CZ4A]

Please help Haiti. Text HAITI to code GIVE (4483) to donate $10.00. Bmobile sends all proceeds to Medianet & Red Cross Relief Funds. Give to save a life

Thanks Duane: I just got that text on my phone and came on the thread to ask if any one can verify its authenticity.

I'm interested in knowing the procedure with paypay though White CZ4A can you provide some more info?, I'm logged on to paypal now, but I'm not seeing any info to make the donation, or alternatively which organizations have put out that they're accepting paypal donations?

sorry for the delay..
go here
http://haitiaid.org/donate.asp

[JoKeR1980]

Just heard on CNN that they using construction equipment like front end loaders and truck to scoop up mounds of bodies and put them in the trucks to take away *sigh*

Can Haiti ever recover from this?

[~Vēġó~]

dat vid is wow!!

[Snags]

I donated. Godaddy.com donated half a million to Haiti also.

[Chimera]

something like this would have been pretty good in times like this though

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[Snags]

Faisal, how did you find out about that haitiaid.org website? It's registered to a Tiffany Bond in washington. She has an email at brandbond.com http://www.brandbond.com/. Like Rene said, you can't just donate through anyone - where'd you hear about the website?What are their procedures for handling donations made through them?Who managers them, etc?

[Snags]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/201 ... ibute.html
A list of legitimate organizations accepting donations for the haiti aid.

[White CZ4A]

Faisal, how did you find out about that haitiaid.org website? It's registered to a Tiffany Bond in washington. She has an email at brandbond.com http://www.brandbond.com/. Like Rene said, you can't just donate through anyone - where'd you hear about the website?What are their procedures for handling donations made through them?Who managers them, etc?

http://forums.trinituner.com/forums/vie ... 90&start=0

from Duane's post here...that is how I heard about them

[obeiron]

You can also donate via OxFam:

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/haiti-e ... /index.php

[xtech]

NEW YORK (CBS) Pat Robertson, the American Christian televangelist and host of "The 700 Club," said that Haitians need to have a "great turning to god" while he was reporting on the devastating 7.0 earthquake that shook the island nation — the most powerful to hit the country in a century.

Video: Pat Robertson's controversial quote is 6 minutes in on this video.

As Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said "well over" 100,000 people may have died in the national disaster, Robertson took to the airwaves Wednesday on his show and said that the country has been "cursed by one thing after another" since they "swore a pact to the devil."

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about," Robertson said Tuesday.


"They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.' True story. And so the devil said, 'Ok it’s a deal.' And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another," Robertson said.

http://www.breitbart.tv/they-have-been- ... the-devil/

[JoKeR1980]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/14/hait ... tml?hpt=T2

[Cid]

NEW YORK (CBS) Pat Robertson, the American Christian televangelist and host of "The 700 Club," said that Haitians need to have a "great turning to god" while he was reporting on the devastating 7.0 earthquake that shook the island nation — the most powerful to hit the country in a century.

Video: Pat Robertson's controversial quote is 6 minutes in on this video.

As Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said "well over" 100,000 people may have died in the national disaster, Robertson took to the airwaves Wednesday on his show and said that the country has been "cursed by one thing after another" since they "swore a pact to the devil."

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about," Robertson said Tuesday.


"They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.' True story. And so the devil said, 'Ok it’s a deal.' And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another," Robertson said.

http://www.breitbart.tv/they-have-been- ... the-devil/

look at this fool....capitalizing on a country's natural disaster to promote his agenda. "true story" steups ...true story my arse..

[Maserati]

thaz real epic destruction yes...wha botherin me is on CNN yuh eh seein no "relief workers" diggin no rubble...is local haitians movin boulders wid they bare hands tryin to pull ppl out...

ok fine planes can't land...wey all de ships, helicopters and aircraft carriers?

US air craft carrier has arrived

[RASC]

It's starting to get ugly out there folks...

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2241637/?wpisrc=newsletter

Anger Grows in Haiti as Survivors Wait for Aid

Although it seemed impossible, things got even worse in Port-au-Prince yesterday, a city that has turned into a veritable above-ground morgue as bodies continued to pile up and the injured continued to suffer with almost no help in sight. Reuters notes that desperate Haitians began to block streets with bodies to express their anger at having to spend another night without help, surrounded by the increasingly foul stench of rotting corpses. Although lots of aid began arriving yesterday, a host of logistical issues prevented impatient workers from doing their jobs. Things moved to a crawl thanks to a badly damaged seaport as well as the city's tiny airport, which became too congested and ran out of fuel, and what the Wall Street Journal describes as a "shattered communications system" that made coordinating relief efforts a nightmare. Bad roads and a lack of transportation has prevented aid workers from getting to the neediest people. Meanwhile, the United Nations warned that aid convoys should add security to guard against looting, and the U.N. World Food Program said its warehouse in Port-au-Prince has been looted, reports the Associated Press. "They are slowly getting more angry," said the spokesman for the United Nations mission said. "We are all aware of the fact that the situation is getting more tense." More than 48 hours after the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck, there was little help to be seen anywhere, and trapped Haitians continued to rely on the kindness of family and friends to dig with their bare hands. But the voices are growing fainter. As the Washington Post's David Brown succinctly puts it, the "golden 48 hours," which is the time that people trapped and injured are most likely to survive after an earthquake, have already passed. The New York Times files a chilling dispatch from the city's morgue, where hundreds of bodies were piled up, noting that, at the very least, it proved a sign that "Haiti's barely functioning state had begun to work." But for the survivors, there was nothing. "For us, the government doesn't exist at all," a 32-year-old survivor who spent hours digging for survivors at a school with his bare hands told the Washington Post. The Los Angeles Times directly states what many others imply: "[S]ome of the more visible international rescue efforts seemed focused on foreign victims." American rescue crews went to the U.N. headquarters and a hotel popular with the city's international community. The United Nations said 36 of its workers have been killed, and an additional 160 are missing. A Haitian Red Cross official said 50,000 people may have been killed, but that seemed little more than a guess.

[eyephone]

[RASC]

Oh Snap, U.S. Marines have landed

KICK ARSEEEE...

Let's hope they come in. Wipe out any and all insurrections especially those started by those drug funded militias, seize weapons and lock down certain sectors of the city. This will GREATLY help with security concerns so that rescue efforts can continue unabated and the rebuild process goes smoothly.

Marines Hoo-Rah

[Cid]

Massive US ship nears Haiti to join relief effort

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in Haiti Friday, poised to deploy an arsenal of resources to aid the Haiti relief effort, amid rising anger that international help has been slow to arrive.

The chief of US naval operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, said the massive USS Carl Vinson, equipped with 19 helicopters, a water-purification plant and carrying tons of medicines, was "in the relief area and will begin operations."

It arrived after untold numbers of victims -- both living and dead -- spent a third night trapped under rubble, and survivors faced another day in the boiling tropical sun without water or food and facing the gathering threat of disease.

The streets of Port-au-Prince, now home to an estimated 100,000 people made homeless by the quake, grew ever tenser, with victims angry that what little help arrived appeared to be trained on foreigners.

Aircraft from the Vinson began to arrive at the airport, where aid flights already jostled for space on the tarmac, a logistical bottleneck that threatened to further hamper aid efforts.

US President Barack Obama promised Haitians they would not be forgotten and pledged to devote every element of US power to their recovery.

The ship was just part of a massive US response to the disaster, which Obama described as "one of those moments that calls out for American leadership."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates both canceled foreign trips to help coordinate the effort, which includes 100 million dollars in immediate assistance and the deployment of over 5,000 US troops.

"We stand in solidarity with our neighbors to the south, knowing that but for the grace of God there we go," Obama said.

US businesses joined the effort, pledging millions of dollars in cash and assistance as images of corpse-lined streets of Port-au-Prince made their way into newspapers and television broadcasts.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said it was deploying 250 personnel to Haiti, and a White House official said Obama's National Security Chief of Staff Denis McDonough would also head to the country.

Rajiv Shah, director of the US Agency for International Development which is helping coordinate US relief efforts in Haiti, said the deployments were ramping up to become one of the most extensive aid operations in recent years.

"We are working aggressively to try and address the needs and try and save lives while we still can," Shah told CNN.

"We're responding strongly," he said.

Three large ships with 2,000 Marines on board and several Coast Guard cutters were dispatched along with the Vinson.

The carrier is outfitted with water-purification equipment that can produce 400,000 gallons of drinking water a day and also boasts hospital beds, operating rooms and a giant flight deck.

"They are going to serve as a floating airport for a lot of different helicopters," Navy Lieutenant Nate Christensen told AFP.

"You have a ship that's very ready and very flexible."

The desperate need for more ways to deliver aid was illustrated Thursday when planes were forced to circle over Port-au-Prince, waiting for an opportunity to land on the lone runway.

Planes eventually made it down, with 44 craft on the ground at the same time at one point, according to a US military official helping run the Toussaint L'Ouverture airport.

The US Air Force said it had flown five air missions so far, delivering 59 tonnes of supplies, carrying out seven evacuations and transporting 113 rescue and aid workers.

The relief effort faced serious challenges with many roads around the capital impassable, communications rudimentary, and aftershocks still shaking the area and its distraught citizens.

Part of the US effort was aimed at helping the estimated 45,000 Americans in Haiti, some of whom were injured in the disaster.

Over 160 US citizens were evacuated Thursday and 370 more were to be rescued later in the day, the State Department said.

A group of wounded, including Spain's ambassador to Haiti and some staff from the US embassy, were taken to the nearby US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- home of the controversial prison camp for terror suspects -- for medical treatment.

US officials were also acutely aware of the need to contain possible mass panic or attempts to flee Haiti by sea to the United States.

Over the years, hundreds have made the perilous 1,000-kilometer (625-mile) journey in leaky boats, and many have perished on the way.



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[Maserati]

the cost to transport clothes probably isn't worth it guys, as it is planes are having trouble landing due to the small airport many are in a holding pattern due to the lack of space.

prob. if they were sending clothes via a ship then it would be more feasible..and I don't think that is what is the most urgently needed right now...$ so that various organization can purchase medicine and other supplies is what is needed.

[RASC]

I've been advising ppl over here...forget the clothes.
It is NOT cold, the weather is NOT a major issue.

Medical supplies, Food, sanitation supplies, water purification tablets and heavy machinery to remove and clear streets.
That is what is most important right now.

[equipped2ripp]

yeah, but they would need clothing as well... people who lost everything can't wear the same clothes right now in February.

they mightn't need it right away, but they would in 2 weeks or so.