Friday, March 19, 2010

Floods and Mudslides In Haiti

Pray for Haiti as the rainy season starts.
Three youngsters were killed as well as a couple of individuals injured when a mudslide brought on by torrential down pours knocked down a wall and smashed a home within the Haitian capital, said some people who were there.  The previous hurricane season, the passing of Tropical Storm Noel killed over forty individuals within Haiti and upward to one hundred within the adjoining Dominican Republic.

Haiti, the poorest nation within the Americas, is susceptible to flash floods and mudslides since the majority of their trees have already been chopped down in order to make charcoal for cooking food. Nearly all its almost nine million people reside in rickety slum dwellings.  Haiti is actually one of many poor nations that was rocked throughout latest weeks by violent protests about soaring world food costs.