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