Mother Nature Strikes Chicago AGAIN With Nasty Storms..pics.(OilBama Payback?)

We've been barraged with storms and these pictures taken from the local news websites tell the story as Mother Nature and God strike Chicago for harboring so much political scum, kind of like the slime that gathered up underneath New York in the movie Ghostbusters is my theory.

The Gods are pissed off at Chicago for grooming Obama and Daley's sins. ; |

Maybe it really does exist after all?

Takes a pretty strong wind to rip this thing out of the ground, from tonight's storms...

This one is Trump Tower taking a direct hit and my theory holds up !

This one came from the other day when a few Sears Willis Tower's windows were broken as they were apparently pelted with the little stones tossed on urban building rooftops to ease the heat absorption which were viscously whipped around by the 70 mph winds almost like bullets. Too bad they didn't take out any crack dealers...: (

This one was the aftermath of tonight's storms which reminded of the year when we had about 4 hailstorms and just about every car in Chicago land caught outdoors was pelted unrelentingly in at least one of the of them, some people I knew had cars that got nailed by them all.

You can see more of the destruction here at NBC 5, WMAQ Chicago.

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Waterlogged Chicago Area Rushhour as Torrential rains closed roads, canceled trains

 Pretty nasty rainstorms this morning and this picture is from a few blocks down the road here, actually very near the Highland Park area gaining attention over the past few days due to the cancellation of a school trip attributable to rampant out of control PC as well as a misguided "show of solidarity" with all the illegal aliens in the area thanks to the fact that Chicago is a damn sanctuary city...

That's another rant for another post another time. 

This picture appeared this morning in the local Daily Herald website 

and is literally visible from my neighborhood off to the left out of view of this shot.......

this apartment complex is literally right down the street and is FILLED TO THE BRIM with illegal aliens ...as you can see these two were too dumb not to drive through 2 feet of water you cant see through huh? F*((&)^) idiots.

The morning commute was slowed by flooded roads and canceled trains as torrential rain pounded the Chicago area -- with some communities getting more rain overnight than they normally do the entire month of May.

A flash flood warning was in effect for northern and central Cook County, DuPage, eastern Kane, Lake and eastern McHenry counties until noon. But the National Weather Service said Lake County bore the brunt of flooding.

Metra briefly canceled Union Pacific/North Line service between Waukegan and Kenosha because of flash flooding north of Waukegan. Buses were dispatched to shuttle passengers between Zion and Winthrop Harbor until trains began running again shortly after 9 a.m.

Trains on other Metra lines had been running as much as 40 minutes late, but were getting back to normal by 9:30 a.m.

In Lake Forest, at least four cars were trapped by water in an underpass at Westleigh Road and U.S. Highway 41. A number of homes were also surrounded by water in the community, officials said.

Deerfield High School closed for the day because of flooding and loss of electricity.

Along Park Drive in Mount Prospect, residents said they couldn't drive down the street. "We are beside ourselves," said Lori Naumowicz, who lives in the 1400 block of Park Drive.

Waterlogged rush: Torrential rain closes roads, cancels trains - Chicago Breaking News

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Volcano flight disarray leaves many passengers broke among other inconveniences and miseries

Hopefully this is temporary, as the last time this "volcano" erupted was in 1820 and it continued for 2 years, so hearing that, we can see how a couple of these eruptions simultaneously could quickly bring the end of civilization as we know it, God forbid .

Talk about preparing for the unexpected, the people all over Europe are scrambling for money, food, what have you, albeit in an non-chaotic fashion so far thank goodness, which is nice to see considering what we've witnessed during other 'natural disasters' I suppose this can be classified as..

...as this picture here from Sky news of a European airport shows everyone pretty much "hanging out" like spending an unexpected week at camp. Then again, perhaps "Congressional prison camp" would be a better characterization after a couple days of being away from home unexpectedly in this awkward fashion I would imagine.

My Way News - : "SYDNEY (AP) - Andrew and Debbie Jackman of Britain spent more than two years saving up for their family vacation to Australia. They probably wish they'd saved a little longer.

On Friday, they found out their Qantas flight from Sydney to Britain had been canceled thanks to a volcano erupting in Iceland. So the Cambridge couple and their two teenage sons squeezed into a 150 Australian dollar ($138) hotel room to wait out the night.

On Saturday, the hotel raised the price of the same room to AU$350 - simply because it could, Andrew said ruefully. After endless negotiations, the hotel brought the price back down to AU$160, but the family, broke and frustrated, opted to move Sunday to a hostel.

passenger stuck at Norita airport with no food..

'We're at the end of the holiday so we've spent all our money,' a weary-eyed Andrew said, as he sat with his family next to the Qantas customer service counter at Sydney Airport. 'Because that's what you do on holiday.'

A dangerous cloud of ash from the volcano has grounded flights in and out of Europe for four days, leaving thousands of people stranded - and increasingly strapped for cash. Stuck passengers have had to shell out for hotels, restaurant meals, clothing and transport to and from the airport as they seek information on when their travel nightmare might end.

In Japan, Francois Broche was down to his last 3,000 yen ($30). The 33-year-old literature and philosophy professor from Nimes, France, said he would have to call his bank at home to see if he can get his money transferred - but doesn't know how.

'I stayed in my hotel last night, but that was all my money,' he said at the Narita International Airport, near Tokyo. 'I think I'm going to stay here and sleep at the airport. Help me God.'" more

Prayers for all would be in order .....

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Volcanic ash cloud: 100,000 Britons stranded in Europe as air traffic chiefs extend lockdown to 7am | Mail Online

Some news and views on the massive pain in the ash" this has all become to travel around Europe. (Perhaps the "One" will get lost in an ash cloud going to Poland and safely land on some uncharted desert island where he can't be located until the year 2020 if we're really lucky this weekend...lol)

Mail Online: "One million Britons were stranded abroad last night by the travel paralysis caused by volcanic ash.

The unprecedented air lockdown was extended until at least 1am tomorrow, with Qantas cancelling all flights to Europe until further notice, and the chaos and confusion will drift well into next week.

Some holidaymakers in Spain were told they face a ten-day wait for a flight home and the delays - coming at the end of the Easter holiday period - intensified problems caused by the massive Icelandic eruption." Read more:

 

This volcano and other eruptions could hamper air travel for months if not years they're saying in Britain, although these are probably many of the same idiots who were on the "climate change global warming nut train"

Safety measures: An aircraft maintenance worker covers a jet engine at Belfast City Airport,
Northern Ireland, yesterday as a cloud of volcanic ash made its way across Europe

This volcano and others like it which erupt as this one has spews more carbon into our atmosphere than all the auto's over the past 20 years combined, and this eruption alone just negated any efforts made as miserably well intentioned they may have been by liberals to "clean the air" with "Kyoto" and all their other "toady" do gooder BS.  Which to me and others I'm certain shows what a real joke all this "environMentalist"  kow towing is, and what a pathetic, gargantuan waste of time and money it's been all around the globe (or across the globe for the liberal flat earther's who bought all that bullshit)

It's time to tell those people to all get ******ed..their theories are proven more a joke every day this year from some reason, I think it's that God's had enough of liberals mocking him and is dumping all over their theories and everything they stand for has been completely exposed as big frauds. I'd still be laughing were it not for how much of this global warming fallacy has altered our country's forward progress based on one big giant scam.

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Expert: Huge fireball likely from Civil War-era comet

Didn't see it but many did as there's no sign nor reports of this landing anywhere and some are speculating at this early stage that it which happened around 10:15 eastern could have been space junk due to the fiery re entry which you can see plainly right here.

Although the article below states otherwise, calling it a "civil war era" meteor which I'm not exactly sure what that's supposed to mean, I would assume it's when it was "spotted and identified" by astrologists in space in that time period.  (Armageddon around the corner!! lol but I'm not laughin')

Expert: Huge fireball likely from Civil War-era comet - Chicago Breaking News: "The fireball that crossed Midwest skies last night may have been a basketball-size meteor from a comet first discovered at the start of the Civil War, according to experts.

David Eicher, editor and chief of Astronomy Magazine, said that while it's believed the fireball seen Wednesday night was a meteor, that wouldn't be known for sure until and unless it is found on the ground. Astronomers believe if the object landed, it would have come down in the Great Lakes area, said Eicher, whose magazine is based in Waukesha, Wisc. There were no reports that it had been found.

'It was an extraordinarily bright meteor,' said Eicher. 'As bright as this thing was, the odds are that it didn't completely burn up before it hit the ground.'

But he also couldn't completely rule out that what people saw were pieces of a falling satellite reentering the Earth's atmosphere as space junk.

He estimated that on impact a burning meteor could have ended up the size of a baseball. The amount of light that the object emitted indicted it was either a large chunk of stone or iron, he said.

Usually, meteorites that cause a streak in the sky tend to be only the size of sand or a pea, Eicher said. This one--assuming it was one--may have come from April's Lyrid meteorite showers as debris from a comet named Thatcher after the man who first discovered it in 1861.

'It was probably a very large chunk, relatively speaking, of cometary debris that was left in the wake, the trail, of this comet's orbit,'' he said.

While he could not point to the object and definitively say it was a meteor, he said circumstantial evidence points to it--chiefly, that the sighting came during the Lyrid showers, which will reach their peak Saturday."

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"The Big One" Alert - Earthquake recorded in Northern California

They upgraded this from a 4.0 as you see in the article below, up to a 7.2... The big one could be coming sooner than later on that side of the country with all the seismic activity we've been seeing lately. And that's not my assessment, that's coming from the experts.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Baja California, Mexico shook buildings as far north as downtown Los Angeles and parts of Arizona forcing people outside their homes. continued

Again this below was the "original report",  and it was a much smaller magnitude of 4, which is the lower limit of actual detection,   and  much smaller than the upgraded 7 plus. Got this little list from hotair.com which is linked at the bottom....

Video from the AssociatedPress — April 04, 2010 — A strong earthquake south of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday shook high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona. (April 4)

FOXNews.com -SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 has been recorded in Northern California.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 3:49 p.m. Sunday about 25 miles north of Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa is about 50 miles north of San Francisco.

The area frequently experiences small earthquakes, and there was no indication the earthquake was an aftershock from the larger quake that struck in Baja California, Mexico, on Sunday afternoon.

A dispatcher with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department in Santa Rosa said he didn't feel the quake and that the department had not received any calls for service after the quake."

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Holy Armageddon ....Taiwan earthquake measuring 6.4 sparks widespread panic; scores injured but no casualties

"Mother Earth is on a tear. A large earthquake hit Taiwan Thursday morning, registering 6.4 on the Richter scale.

There were no immediate reports of deaths, but the quake injured at least 64 people, spawned blackouts, disrupted rail service and caused widespread panic.

Coming in the wake of the devastating 7.0 quake in Haiti and this week's 8.8 quake in Chile, could something sinister be going on?

Experts say no. 'It's coincidental. These quakes are not connected,' said geophysicist Don Blakeman at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

'We constantly have quakes going off. It takes one big damaging earthquake to get people's attention and then they start noticing all the quakes.'

Tell that to the Japanese."  continued

Again, the democrats are worried about global warming when the core of the earth is ready to explode, or has been doing so, and Obama's shoving health care nobody wants down our throats.

Today it was a pretty decent sized one in Japan, and they were talking the other day with this Science guy with the long hair I'm sure everyone saw once during the Chilean earthquake aftermath, and he called it, he said Japan would be next so he had California on his list and I'd be sweating if I were the people out there because these quakes are related.

We better hope and pray that day isn't coming sooner than we all expected, hell we had a small one here a couple weeks ago, so who knows what Mother Nature has cooked up but we do know global warming should be the last of our concerns.

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"Chilean Looting Madness" as The Calm after the 'Quake Ends As it Began, With a Fury

Here's a woman who's either really full of shit or has a real big ass if she needs this much toilet paper, or paper towels we can't really tell other than it's called 'Favorita', (maybe she uses the towels for tp?) unless she  perhaps plans to hand out rolls wherever she happens to be living and staying at, in which case she might just be the local hero showing up with this bounty.  But from the looks on the faces of the guy in the yellow  and her, I'd bet the former.

Something tells me that she's going to try and sell it from the look on her face you can plainly see. That's just not a face of "bathroom relief" as I've never seen anyone "dying to relieve themselves" able to do the "200 meter International WalMart Looter Dash" with enough toilet paper for the Chicago Bulls, and a big smile on their face like they just got 4 numbers in the lotto. 

Looks like that woman just may have to replace the infamous NOLA looter as "Google images tragedy opportunist of the new millennium". 

Oh wait,  this is the wrong picture dammit, this is the infamous and notorious Kenyan born, DC Looter caught vacationing during Katrina.

Here's some Chilean police on the streets trying to subdue some of the unnecessary looting, I guess until  the merchants were basically ordered to "give the stuff away" which probably caused even worse looting, you know?

Chile earthquake: Military takes control as death toll passes 700 | Mail Online: "Bloody and broken, this is the body of a looter in Chile who was hit by a car as he tried to escape with his loot from a market in Santiago.

His horrific fate came as the Chilean government was forced to send in 10,000 troops to manage the chaos as earthquake survivors scramble for food and water.

The Chilean military was last night trying to restore order as looters swept the devastated streets of the country's second city."

I like the guy in the back here who looks like he's perusing through the "bargain bin" at Walmart, ya know? When your looking through clothing after you went through an earthquake, I don't think it's really an absolute necessity do you? I can see after a flood or some weather phenomenon, but a quake?

He's clothed and not that shabbily either. Probably because he's out shopping and garbage picking for new clothes during the earthquake aftermath.

I don't mean to be an asshole but wouldn't you still have your own clothes if your house collapsed, no?  I would...You could still climb back in your dwelling and get some of your stuff don't you think? Again, I sure as hell would, that and my loaded weaponry to keep the scavengers away, like 5 foot rodents.

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Raw Video as Security Video Cameras Capture Chilean Quake

You don't see this too often unless trapped in one....

Breitbart.tv » Raw: Security Cameras Capture Chilean Quake: "Wall Street Journal: The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off coastal Chile in the early hours of the morning is one of the biggest temblors anywhere in more than a century.

Data from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that this morning's Chile quake tied in fifth place with an 8.8 quake that hit Ecaduor and Bolivia in 1906. Only four quakes have been bigger since 1900. The largest was a 9.5 magnitude event that struck Chile in 1960, causing 1,655 fatalities, leaving 2 million homeless, and triggering a tsunami that killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines."

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Hawaii Governor Declares State of Emergency -

8 foot Tsunami created from this morning's Chilean earthquake could hit Hawaii in about 10 minutes at 3 pm central time according to Fox News....

FOXNews.com: "Hawaii's governor has declared a state of emergency as the island chain braces for possible tsunami damage generated from a major earthquake that rocked Chile on Sunday.

Gov. Linda Lingle signed an emergency disaster proclamation as a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said that a potential tsunami was approaching Hawaii faster than originally predicted.

Victor Sardina said data coming in from buoys and tide gauges across the Pacific indicated the tsunami should arrive in Hawaii at 11:05 a.m. (4:05 p.m. ET), instead of 11:19 a.m.

The tsunami waves are expected to measure roughly 8 feet at Hilo, Hawaii."

This was a video from this morning with a caller who was describing the aftershocks of the earthquake that may cause further damage to the Hawaiian islands....

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4.3-magnitude earthquake hits near Sycamore Illinois, 45 Miles West of Chicago

Kind of robotic but chock-full of the pertinent info regarding the small quake

Centered about 45 miles from Chicago, 20 from here we had a little trembling this morning, and while up at the time, I didn't feel a thing, but many others not too far from here did. 

Many are unaware, but there's a nasty fault line through the Midwest called the New Madrid fault in Southern Illinois Missouri, etc as the pic indicates. And while it's too early to tell where it originated, the early assumption is that might the case, and this isn't the first,  nor will it be the last earthquake in Illinois.

The epicenter of this morning's quake was near the city where the University of Northern Illinois is located, in De Kalb County, Illinois.

4.3-magnitude earthquake hits near Sycamore

Chicago Breaking News: "A mild earthquake shook northern Illinois this morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 4.3-magnitude quake at 3:59:43 a.m. centered about 5.5 miles east of Sycamore and 3.1 miles underground. The epicenter is about 45 miles west of Chicago.

The quake was felt over a wide area, but there were no reports of any damage 90 minutes later, according to the Kane County and DeKalb County sheriff's departments, which are closest to the epicenter.

The nature of the fault activity that caused the quake was unclear, said Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the geological survey in Golden, Colo. Past quakes that have affected southern Illinois have been in the Wabash Valley or New Madrid seismic zones.

The fault systems in northern Illinois are not as well understood as those in other regions where earthquakes are more common, and more investigation will be needed to determine the cause of this morning's temblor, Vaughan said."

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Reporters Use Quake For Self-Promotion?

The video is from Fox and they have 2 of the most sensationalizing reporters on the globe, being Geraldo and Shemp Smith from his NOLA reporting which was so over the top many may remember.

But with a couple Dr's and reporters at CNN and others have injected themselves into the story here in Haiti  as we all saw on the news, one even using it as a promotion for their station.





Reporters Use Quake For Self-Promotion? - Video - FoxNews.com: "Have medical reporters taken advantage of earthquake?"

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Haitian Survivor, mostly uninjured, is rescued from rubble after 11 days

I think authorities need to scrap the "can't survive more than three days" mantra heard so often after these natural disasters, as now this man survived in a crevice of rubble and destruction down in a Haitian hotel without water amazingly enough.

Hopefully there are still more of these stories in the next couple days nearing 2 weeks after the tragedy. 

I've also blogged about 2 kids saved, one 5 days here and one 7 here.

- CNN.com: "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake devastated much of the country.

Wismond Jean-Pierre, who had no visible injuries but was severely dehydrated, was immediately loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital for treatment.

One member of the French team called the three-hour effort 'a miracle' as he was briefly overcome with emotion. Other members of the team -- assisted by American and Greek workers -- were seen weeping with joy after the rescue.

'This is God,' the chief of the French rescue team said as he pointed to the sky."  continued

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Haiti Editorial Cartoons From The Past Week

Here's some of the more poignant cartoons I've seen over the past week with more you can view here if you wish....

 Click each to enlarge in new windows

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Haitian "Patch Adams" takes more than 100 patients into his home

If you didn't see the movie, Patch Adams is a true story of a selfless American doctor played by Robin Williams  who starts his own hospital in his home basically where the sick help take care of one another which actually is a functioning hospital today called "The Gesundheit Institute".

So here's one of God's children doing much good down there in Haiti right out of his undamaged home, the only one in his neighborhood. Hundred or more injured people are being treated there losing only 18 pts so far again with literally no medical supplies whatsoever.

Here he is (Patch Adams that is)  pictured from his website which is linked above.

World - Canoe.ca: "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It wasn't long after Tuesday's earthquake levelled nearly all of the houses next to Claude Surena's that neighbours started showing up at his doorstep.

For years, the 59-year old pediatrician had treated the sick at his two-story hillside home near the centre of the Haitian capital.

Suddenly, he was running a triage centre, treating more than 100 victims on his shaded, leafy patio with food and supplies salvaged from ruined homes.

His undamaged house provides at least a minimum level of comfort away from the devastation - even for the dying - while thousands of others in the city lie in the dirt under a merciless sun waiting for attention from a handful of doctors."  continued

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Obama, Bush, And Clinton At White House Today (video)

You only see this at funerals, they're only missing HW and the Peanut Farmer also known by his secret service handle, "Obama One ".

Obama explains he won't blame anything on either of these two if they go out and raise some money for Haitian earthquake relief, since the G-man under the Obama man is too broke to pay "attention" much less for more earthquake relief..;>)  ..they need more money from us and can't pass a tax this quick, so he'll get us later too. : (

I'm sure the far left will have a field day with Bush's remarks from his heart, minus teleprompter we're so used to seeing Obama sing Presidential Karaoke from day after day.

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Haitian Leader Thanks Americans for Immediate Assistance

This is nice to hear once in a while, as you may remember tens of thousands of Iranian's probably died due to their whack assed leaders turning down US assistance in the aftermath of the Bam earthquake in 2003

That's how much those leaders hate us and Obama wants to unconditionally be their buds.

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Here's what other countries are supposedly doing, however they are all famous for saying one thing at the onset and doing something else when the press dies down and they can screw us and let America foot the bill. Just you watch because I will be and will report on it all later.

Just look at this list, it's pretty freaking pathetic really. 

To put it in perspective we've given Haiti billions in just the past 5 years, Billions.  

• China only donates a million bucks, holy cheap assed mother &*^&^%%$^'s batman
  
  
• The United Nations is releasing $10 million from its emergency funds.
  
  
• The Irish telecommunications company Digicel said it would donate $5 million to aid agencies and help repair the damaged phone network.
  
  
• The European Commission has approved $4.37 million with more funds likely. Spain has pledged $4.37 million, and sent three planes with rescue teams and 100 tons of emergency relief equipment.
  
  
• The Netherlands has donated $2.91 million and will send a 60-person search-and-rescue team.
  
  
• Germany gave $2.17 million and sent an immediate response team. Another team with 20 rescue dogs is on standby.
  
  
• China will donate $1 million, according to Xinhua News Agency.
  
  
• Sweden has offered $850,000 along with tents, water purification equipment and medical aid. 
• Venezuela has sent doctors, firefighters and rescue workers.
  
  
• Mexico will send doctors, search-and-rescue dogs and infrastructure damage experts. France is sending two planes with doctors, food and medical equipment.
  
  
• Britain has sent 64 firefighters with search-and-rescue dogs and 10 tons of equipment Iceland is sending 37 search-and-rescue specialists.
  
  
• Taiwan is flying in 23 rescue personnel and 2 tons of aid and equipment. Israel is sending an elite army rescue unit including engineers, rescue workers, doctors and medics.

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Panic, Looting and Triage After Haiti Quake (Sounds Familiar) -O'Reilly Talking Points On Haiti

Bill O'Reilly states my feelings on the entire situation quite aptly in his Talking Points tonight, topics which I've already kind of  railed about a little bit in two previous Haiti posts to this one.. And interestingly I agree with every word he says here but  again already said them in not so PC terms.(me not him)

Panic, Looting and Triage After Major Haiti Quake

NYTimes.com: "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The tiny bodies of children lay in piles next to the ruins of their collapsed school. People with faces covered by white dust and the blood of open wounds roamed the streets. Frantic doctors wrapped heads and stitched up sliced limbs in a hotel parking lot.The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, still struggling to recover from the relentless strikes of four catastrophic storms in 2008, was a picture of heartbreaking devastation Wednesday after a magnitude-7 earthquake

The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, still struggling to recover from the relentless strikes of four catastrophic storms in 2008, was a picture of heartbreaking devastation Wednesday after a magnitude-7 earthquake.

Tuesday's quake left a landscape of collapsed buildings -- hospitals, schools, churches, ramshackle homes, even the gleaming national palace -- the rubble sending up a white cloud that shrouded the entire capital.

On Wednesday, ambulances weaved in and out of crowds, swerving to miss the bodies lying in street and the men on foot who lugged stretchers bearing some of the injured.

Shocked survivors wandered about in a daze, some wailing the names of loved ones, praying or calling for help. Others with injuries fast growing into infections sat by the roadside, waiting for doctors who were not sure to come.

Search-and-rescue helicopters buzzed over the bodies of partially clothed victims who lay face-down in mounds of rubble and twisted steel.

Everywhere, there was panic, urgency, pleas for help.|

''Thousands of people poured out into the streets, crying, carrying bloody bodies, looking for anyone who could help them,'' Bob Poff, divisional director of disaster services in Haiti for the Salvation Army, said in a posting on the agency's Web site.

Poff wrote that he was driving down the mountain from Petionville, a hillside city bordering the capital, when the earthquake struck.

''Our truck was being tossed to and fro like a toy, and when it stopped, I looked out the windows to see buildings 'pancaking' down,'' he wrote. continued

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We'll see lots of looting in the coming days and aftermath as people use misery as an excuse to steal and essentially act like lawless animals, just like their leaders did leading right up to this disaster with about 5 billion in the past 5 years alone, and will now cost Americans more than anyone.

Admittedly it's hard to say without being there whether or not people are taking advantage or simply trying to survive in the immediate aftermath of one massive earth quake.

In fact, remember this guy?

How could anyone forget him? His identity now in the world is to be simply known on the net as "the looter". Go Google  it and see what comes up when you do? Told you.

Or what about these people, the freaking law enforcement people were just as savage as the looters we all remember as well I'm sure, and you can bet if they were doing it here  even in "Nawlin's" they're having a field day in that place down in Haiti, although perhaps not as much as they don't exactly have Best Buy's and Walmart's on every dirt covered street corner..

Should Hurricane Katrina Looters Be Tolerated? - The best home videos are here

Well, as I said. before, the looters are hard at work in Haiti too, and I wonder why we didn't see these pictures and stories about looters and such during the year of flooding we just saw not too long ago all over the Midwest, not a single story about looters and the likes.

I actually know the answer  and so  do you, but that's another post another time.

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Major Earthquake Hits Haiti Leaving Damage and A Tsunami Watch In It's Wake-

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Major Earthquake Hits Haiti With Widespread Damage and Tsunami Watch

ABC News: "A major earthquake struck just off the coast of Haiti late this afternoon, reportedly causing extensive damage in the capital of Port-au-Prince, and one aid worker said 'there must be thousands of people dead.'

The quake had a magnitude of 7.0 according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and was centered just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince.

The center was also relatively shallow, less than 10 miles below ground, raising the risk of damage.

Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative in Port-au-Prince, told U.S. colleagues before phone service failed that 'there must be thousands of people dead,' a spokeswoman for the aid group told The Associated Press.

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Indonesia quake toll rises to 531 dead / Videos

What can you say or do about this earthquake tsunami one two occurring in Indonesia the past few days except pray for all involved...

(videos link)

My Way News -"PADANG, Indonesia (AP) - Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 531 people. The death toll was expected to rise.

The brunt of Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake, which originated in the sea off Sumatra island, appeared to have been borne by Padang town where 376 people were killed. Four other districts accounted for the remaining deaths.

The region was jolted by another powerful earthquake Thursday morning, causing damage but no reported fatalities."  more

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