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Subscribe to RSSThose considered most vulnerable were urged to move into an evacuation camp housed in a school building, but others with nowhere else to go were digging trenches to avoid the water. Haiti's population remains especially vulnerable due to the country's sprawling shanty towns. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
Updated at 7:40 a.m. ET: Tropical Storm Isaac dumped heavy rains on Haiti on Saturday, threatening floods and mudslides in a country where hundreds of thousands of people remain homeless more than two years after a devastating earthquake.
Lashing rains and high winds were reported along parts of Haiti's southern coast and in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where more than 350,000 survivors of the 2010 earthquake are still living in fragile tent and tarpaulin camps.
Intermittent power outages affected the greater Port-au-Prince area in the early hours of Saturday as Isaac bore down on the impoverished Caribbean country.
At 5 a.m. ET, the U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for the Florida Keys, including the Dry Tortugas, the west coast of Florida from Bonita Beach southward and Florida Bay.
It also issued a hurricane watch notice for Florida’s east coast from Golden Beach southward.
The NHC also said the Bahamas government had issued a hurricane watch for Andros Island.
The NHC's notice at 5 a.m. said Isaac had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, down from 70 mph earlier Saturday, and was about 150 miles southeast of Guantanamo, Cuba.
'Life-threatening flash floods'
The Weather Channel reported that bands of heavy rain triggered flooding in Puerto Rico through Friday, even with Isaac's center well to the southwest. A bridge collapse and mudslide was reported early Friday. Power outages were also reported. The U.S. Virgin Islands were also affected.
The Weather Channel said heavy rainbands on the cyclone's eastern flank were expected to continue to hammer Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Follow Isaac's path with our storm tracker
Storm total rainfall of 8 to 12 inches is possible, with up to 20 inches locally, The Weather Channel said. Additionally, 4- to 8-inches of rainfall, with isolated incidents of 12 inches, was possible in Jamaica.
"Life-threatening flash floods and mudslides will likely result from that amount of rain," it warned.
Aid workers prep Haiti's tent city residents for Isaac's onlsaught
Isaac's march across the Caribbean comes as U.S. Republicans prepare to gather in Tampa, on Florida's central Gulf Coast, for Monday's start of their national convention ahead of the November presidential election.
The convention is still expected to proceed as planned but Gulf of Mexico operators began shutting down offshore oil and gas rigs on Friday ahead of the storm.
But the biggest immediate concern was heavily deforested Haiti.
With nearly 400,000 people still living in evacuation tents, a hurricane or even a tropical storm could lead to deaths and more damage to the already fragile country. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
On Friday, the government and aid groups evacuated thousands of tent camp dwellers but many Haitians chose to remain in their flimsy, makeshift homes, apparently out of fear they will be robbed, said Bradley Mellicker, head of disaster management for the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
"There's a lot of people who are resisting because they are scared of losing what little they have now," Mellicker said.
Churches, schools are shelters
About 3,000 volunteers from the government's Civil Protection office were dispatched across Haiti, warning people about flood and landslide risks, and about 1,250 shelters -- schools, churches or other community buildings -- that have opened their doors to house people seeking refuge from the storm.
But Red Cross officials said the number of shelters could be grossly inadequate and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe acknowledged Haiti had "limited means" to ensure public safety.
Red Cross and IOM representatives joined government officials in trying to evacuate 8,000 of the "most vulnerable people," including 2,500 sick and disabled, from 18 tent camps in low-lying coastal areas of Port-au-Prince.
Live updates and analysis from weather.com
Transcript of weather.com experts answering Isaac questions
Many Haitians, most of whom scrape by on less than $1 per day, consider disaster an inevitable part of life in the poorest country in the Americas.
"We live under tents. If there's too much rain and wind, water comes in. There's nothing we can do," said Nicholas Absolouis, an unemployed 34-year-old mechanic at one camp for homeless people on the northern edge of the chaotic capital.
"There are still too many people living in the camps. There's a good chance that those might be destroyed with the passage of the cyclone," said France Hurtubise of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Haiti.
Flooding could also help reignite a cholera epidemic, which has killed more than 7,500 people in Haiti since the disease first appeared in October 2010, foreign aid workers said.
Could hit New Orleans
On its current path, forecasters said Isaac would hit Cuba and the southern tip of Florida before making landfall anywhere from the Florida Panhandle in the northwestern part of the state to Alabama and as far west as New Orleans.
A tropical storm warning was issued for the entire coast of south Florida on Friday, and a hurricane warning also went into effect in the Florida Keys.
Party leaders are going ahead with their plans to host the Republican Convention in Florida, but GOP and Tampa officials have not ruled out the possibility of postponing the event if the storm poses a public safety risk. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.
Isaac has drawn especially close scrutiny because of the Republican Party's convention, a four-day meeting during which former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will receive the party's presidential nomination.
Party officials insist the convention will go ahead, even if they have to alter the schedule. But NHC meteorologist Rick Danielson said Tampa could potentially be hit by coastal flooding and driving winds or rain.
"There is still a full range of possible impacts on Tampa at this point," he said.
Danielson said it was very hard to project intensity before Isaac passes over mountainous Cuba on Saturday and Sunday and enters the Florida Straits. But the Florida Keys, the island chain off the southernmost part of the state, were definitely in harm's way.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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It's terrible that the people of Haiti are facing another disaster but what happened to all of the millions of dollars of aid??? The US wasn't the only country helping Haiti, either. Why are the people still living in tents???
It would be great if Isaac would turn away from Haiti now and roll straight into Texas where they need the water.
Because they are so lazy they expect everything to be built for them. There is plenty of stone rubble, if they had a mind to , they could have built their own stone house by now.
We need to send Obama and his government down to Haiti so they can build up the Haitians infrastructure and businesses.
Haitians: the storm can't hear you. Prayer (talking to imaginary men in the sky) is useless. Religion exploits and represses the poor while making greedy leaders wealthy and corrupt. "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish." Poor people must reject fairy tale religions (all of them), embrace birth control and quality education, plus fight corruption.
You notice the number of children under 2 they always show. Seems they still can do what they do best in haiti produce even more mouths to feed. You would think people living in tents knowing how hard the life was on their current children they would at least wait to have another until they had a safe place to live.
amietamant
Why is it that just because you don't believe in a God that you have to make fun and call names to anyone that does?
Does it really Scare you that much that MAYBE they are right and you are wrong?
I thought that the Haitian goverment stopped accepting aid because it was having a negative effect on its economy, like nobody was buying from the local farmer markets..
I know that i read that somewhere.
amietamant, I find your lack of FAITH disturbing..."Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Since you seem to like quotes, there is one for you to think about....If your faith is strong enough, you CAN do more than just type your pessimistic views on a keyboard....
Chefaz, I lived in Houston for many years, and I'll tell you that a hurricane which brings 10-12 inches of water is NO BLESSING---despite drought-like conditions. Flooding is never a good thing, and it would kill crops and livestock just as surely as a drought would.....only faster!
Haitians biggest obstacle is CORRUPTION. Google "haiti aid corruption" and go figure. As history has taught us, you simply cannot trust organizations - probably some individuals and corporations too - with large sums of donated money.
GOD/nature didn't create Hurri.(74) Isaac(33) to relieve the curses He/She has put on Texans because of their sins, i.e. greed, excess luxury, prejudice, violence/gun proliferation, and following profits instead of prophets. This 'Red State'/GOP is guilty of promoting Ronald(6 letters) Wilson(6) Reagan(6): "the 1st Beast who was ruler(74) of the world, lied to all nations, and was wounded yet lived". George Walker Bush Jr.: "the 2nd Beast who imitated the 1st Beast and brought down fire from the heavens(74) with the destruction of Babylon (War In Iraq)." United(6) States(6) Dollar(6) is the "mark of the Beast that everyone must have to buy and sell with" - The Revelation Chapter 13 (The back of the US $1 Dollar Bill has the #13 encoded 13x.)
Hurri. Isaac cancelling the 1st day of the RepubliCON's Convention is no 'coincidence'. The title of the 74-page "book/scroll" prophesied in The Revelation 5:1-10:10 is entitled There Are No Coincidences - there is synchronism. On its cover are the "7 seals"/'beyond Einstein theories' (google that or visit ).
Everyone must choose GOD or GOP
"The Christian Right is Neither!"
Jesus was the BIGGEST liberal in history!
GOD/nature has created Hurri.(74) Isaac(33) for several reasons: (1) to curb over-population in Haiti, (2) to test those who have the ability to help the needy, (3) to continue the curses He/She has put on Americans because of their sins, i.e. greed, excess luxury, prejudice, ignoring the poor, robbing the sick, violence/gun proliferation, and following profits instead of prophets. (4) The 'Red States'/GOP is guilty of promoting Ronald(6 letters) Wilson(6) Reagan(6): "the 1st Beast who was ruler(74) of the world, lied to all nations, and was wounded yet lived". George Walker Bush Jr.: "the 2nd Beast who imitated the 1st Beast and brought down fire from the heavens(74) with the destruction of Babylon (War In Iraq)." United(6) States(6) Dollar(6) is the "mark of the Beast that everyone must have to buy and sell with" - The Revelation Chapter 13 (The back of the US $1 Dollar Bill has the #13 encoded 13x.)
Hurri. Isaac cancelling the 1st day of the RepubliCON's Convention is no 'coincidence'. The title of the 74-page "book/scroll" prophesied in The Revelation 5:1-10:10 is entitled There Are No Coincidences - there is synchronism. On its cover are the "7 seals"/'beyond Einstein theories' (google that or visit ).
Everyone must choose GOD or GOP
"The Christian Right is Neither!"
Jesus was the BIGGEST liberal in history!
GOD---too big to fail.
HEAVEN---coming soon to an earth near you!
John(J10+O15+H8+N14=47*),
Amen(33). I like how you distinguish between(74) heavens(74): the sky, clouds(74), low-Earth-orbit, our solar system, deep-space and heaven: an ideal place and time - 'paradise' - where one feels close to GOD and loved ones. This confusion of 'heavens' and 'heaven' is the BIGGEST mistake of Christians, Muslims, and others.
Everyone should recognize that the mission of that 'God-guy' who appeared in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley 6,000 years ago and the subsequent effects since has been to produce "Heaven On Earth". The return of GOD's 'chosen one' - Christ 2 (E=mc2) - is what really kicks this in!
Google: 7 seals revealed beyond Einstein theories
*Simple(6,74) English(7,74) Gematria(8,74): GOD=7_4, 7/4=July 4th
For a century they relied on prayer instead of sound construction practices and building codes, then a modest earthquake comes and their city of un-reinforced garbage concrete crashes down slaughtering them wholesale. So then they pray and beg for handouts and years later they still live in the tents that 'God provided'. Now they pray that fast winds and high water will not sweep their tents and selves into the sea. I truly wish I could say: "Good luck with that!"....but I can't. Stupid SHOULD hurt.
I don,t think the Voodoo that they do helps either.......
You cannot serve 2 gods.....you are serving one or the other....the one true God will smite you if you serve Satan and his 'voodoo'.....so I guess the smiting part is now on it's way.....again....guess they'll never learn...
Taz, I think if that were totally true (not saying it isn't), that New Orleans would be a lifeless wasteland right now.....being one of the most Godless and base of communities in America.... I think God wants to give everyone chance after chances to turn their lives around.... if Haiti is being visited with judgements, what can be said about America?? Blazing droughts across the country, wildfires, earthquakes, pestilence, diseases (like aids), and a growing number of people turning away from God all together. Not to mention the searing hatred fostered of one for another because of different faiths and political views..... I wouldn't point a finger at Haiti in judgmental derision....we're in the same kind of boat---albeit, our boat is a lot bigger!
Texson55: I find it so pathetically ironic--we condemn reason and evidence and turn instead to one of endless versions of man made Gods and then blame godlessness for the extreme weather changes that educated ppl have known for decades would result from our use of the atmosphere as a limitless waste dump...hence wildfires and droughts AND floods. Earthquakes are well understood and have absolutely ZERO to do with anything supernatural and almost nothing to do with human activities. Diseases completely ruled human life back in the day when everyone lived for the church. As church attendance has decreased in America so has the crime rate--crime is at historic all time lows in America today as is church going.
Taz: To serve the Christian God is by extension to serve what God created and that would include Satan, No?
Fuel,
You are not only a d'evil, you are quite ignorant of Haitians, all the Third World, and many facts that you misquote. The 7.3 Haiti Earthquake was a major catastrophe.
You have made quite a judgment of Haitians. Jesus(74) said, "Judge not, that you be not judged." - Matthew 7:1. Therefore, I judge you GUILTY of ignorance, prejudice, and a lack of concern towards the poor and needy. Your sentence: 666 years reincarnated as poor Haitians.
The law of karma is as real as the law of gravity. "You reap what you sow." "When the Christ returns, everyone is judged according(74) to their actions."
Brad Watson, Miami
I'm more than happy to be judged and to reap what I sow because I treat others, and this fragile planet, with great generosity, kindness and consideration. Why would anyone give a damn about some cherry picked bible quote? The Buybull also explicitly endorses slavery--are you going to defend that also? Go read the Sermon on the Mount and try to live by those words of Jesus before you judge others like me in the name of such a fool. I am plenty concerned about the poor and needy that is why I condemn the sort of BS you mindlessly regurgitate that perpetuates the cycle.
A 7.3 quake is modest and would do minor damage to any prepared nation--one that relies on reason and evidence instead of prayer. The recent quake in Japan (and many others around the world since the Hatie quake) were hundreds of times more powerful then that
KA CHING! payday time! haitians LOVE natural disasters because america including leonardo dicaprio will rush in, donate millions of dollars, and the haitians will not build for themselves or help themselves in any way. they are proud to be the best 3rd world country in the western hemisphere! they will instead take the money and smile and breed more babies. haitians need more natural disasters and less co ndoms (not sure if they even have a single one actually).
DPL, they need MORE condoms, not less! The lack of birth control is why there are so many people living on that tiny island, and it's the reason so many of them have AIDS! They don't have much else to do, so they have unprotected sex for recreation. There is also a high occurrence of rape. The UN once issued a report that at least half the women in the shantytowns and IDP camps were victims of rape, and arrests and convictions of perpetrators is extremely unlikely. If I thought for one minute that the condoms would actually get to those who need them, I would send a case of them to Haiti.
Also, did you know that wishing disaster on others will bring you some really bad karma?
I think birth control pills would be better. You mentioned high incidents of rape. That is so sad. If the women who are living in extreme poverty can be offered birth control pills, at least they can control how many babies they have. Actually, anyone who is living in such extreme poverty should halt reproduction for the time being. That message needs to be given to them and birth control needs to be encouraged.
If they could put birth control medication in the food and water for these women, I surely send them some money to do it (if there was an assurance that the money would be used for this intention). Yes, pills would be better, and like the condoms, if I thought they would actually get to the women, I would send some to them. Haiti's government is so corrupt that very little of the aid sent to Haiti actually makes it to the people for whom it is intended.
Yeap both zari-m and dany are right. Instead of sending millions of dollars, send those people millions of birth control pills and condoms...they are like rabbits, having kids every 6 months. So when those kids are like 8 yrs old their parents send them to work, that is why there are like 12 kids per family. Like in Africa. Just ssaying...
george clooney and sean penn need to hop on a plane and sit this storm out with them.
Looking at the photo, I can only hope someone has the intelligence to say, "Look folks, prayers and a microphone are not going help you."
Hard work will, but no one from Haiti will be willing to do that. Rape, murder plenty to go around for everyone.
Xsvenom, rape and murder? New Orleans showed us how that worked as they committed it among their own during Katrina.....and then they cursed the rest of the country for not opening their arms more.... I say that only because of the decadence there that makes God turn His face away from them many times. But, the rest of America is not far behind.... "...when the majority of a people choose sin, then are they ripe for destruction..."
Annie, prayer is never a wasted effort.....God helps and blesses us through His other children's benevolence (more times than not), but if the faith is there, He can and will do it Himself!
What a truely pathetic people. Tens of thousands still in tents!? This is why you teach to fish rather than serve the fish.Indeed pray because that is all you have.
Good point, Liberty.....we need to keep that in mind as our own government is taking over our own lives here in America, and beware of how they are killing the incentive of Americans to work for themselves, and in doing so, is killing the American Dream...
These people share the Republican values. I bet they think there is such a thing a legitimate rape and they are praying to the same christian god the Republicans want us all to pray to. I don't understand why Mitt, Ryan and crew don't cancel their convention and run down to help them.
After all if the Republicans have their way this will be the US. Poor, uneducated, having a child a year and at the mercy of the rich and praying to god to save us from global climate change.
mj
Actually, they are sitting around waiting for handouts because their Government is too criminal to provide the tools needed to be self-sufficient. Give a man a fish each day and he will depend on it, Teach a man to fish and he will eat daily by his own abilities. That's how to ween society.
I'll make you a deal - let's all stop using politics for a Natural Event, suuch as a Hurricane? Maybe NBC threw in the Repub Convention just to draw out the trolls?
These people share the lazy liberal philosophy, sit on your butt, let everyone else work while you collect government benefits.
"Taking care of ALL the people, telling us what we can do, and what we can't" sure seems to be the mantra of our current administration.......but TRUE hope and change is on the way....
Actually, Republicans should see this as an opportunity to show some guts and take some of the hundreds of millions of dollars they are throwing at this election, turn it around, and do something to help the poor. After all, if you are Christian, that is Christ's one and only message, share what you have with the poor. What you do for the least of these you do for Me. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle that a rich man to enter heaven.
It is a myth that everyone on the planet has the same opportunity, if only they would work as hard as the successful ones. Haiti is poor because of corruption. Greedy people siphon off the money because they can.
It's horrible to see Haiti poor for so many decades. Not as horrible as living there. Learn before you judge.
Republican TeaBilly Conservatives are Pro Life and Anti Help.
You BetCha....Fer Sure.
A lot of Americans -- of all political persuasions -- gave generously to Haiti after the earthquake. The money disappeared and they are still living in tents. Why you saw fit to single out republicans just shows your ignorance and inability to be objective. All you are interested in is class warfare. Well you need to realize that the democrat party has just as many uncaring fat cats as any other party. You're the horrible one.
By da Way……………..when is the Last Time you saw a Republican TeaBilly Conservative open up an Orphanage or Adopt a Child from their Inner Cities?
I Hear Crickets Chirping.
You BetCha……Fer Sure.
And da Republican TeaBilly Conservative “War on Women” Continues…………..
Republican/ teapots would never do anything for someone else unless it would benefit themselves.
How much did you give to Haiti?
Will you look at that, BO has throw Trillions of dollars at the American Economy and we are still SINKING and Unemployment is the higest it has been since WWII?
If the people would get off their lazy A$$es and instead of holding their hands out for welfare get a damn Job then maybe we wouldn't be like we are.
What a bunch of indoctrinated, brainwashed Brahmin you followers of the party rhetoric are. Do you honestly believe a politician of any party give a damn about anything other than power and money? Do you sincerely believe they care if you live or die? I suppose it is possible for the indoctrination to be that complete, judging by the posts here.
The left is this, the right is that, stupid, stupid sheep. Politicians, no matter what party they claim have but one thing in common, If it's mouth is moving, it IS lying to you. The Republicans promise this, the Democrats promise that, guess what Brahmin?, neither of them gives a damn. You all got all upset about the bail outs and stimulus, now you think it saved the country. You got upset over the Bonus checks for directors and share holders. Check the names of those directors and share holders, you'll find them on both sides of the aisle.
With luck the gigantic Vacuum that is D.C. will pull the hurricane away form Florida and flatten the toilet that is D.C., at no net lose to the country. As it states in the Declaration of Independence, "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, without redress or remedy, leads inevitably to utter despotism, the people have the right and responsibility to throw off such governance and to provide new guards for their future security." It is time to throw off this corrupt self serving and isolated elitist pack of criminals and start anew. Hope and Change? I think Mr. Obama only "hoped to change" his income level. Judging from his 2010 income tax return, "mission accomplished". Liars, thieves, scoundrels and con men all no matter what "party" they claim. ALL dirty, ALL the time.
god sending mitt romney stong winds. hes does not like crazy romney
This may be the push the people needed to get them to out of the tents, and maybe not as it is like asking a democrat to give up their welfare.
No republicans are on welfare? I didn't know that.
Probably not many. Most Republicans are rich. They're also male, fat, white, and judgmental.
The problem with “Donating” is by the time all the money, good will, etc go thru those filters called (Greed, Corruption, Waste, Mismanagement, and Delay) there is very little left for its intended purpose. Remember the Disaster Katrina, and the way the Bush Administration handled that. The famous quote, “You’re doing a great job Brownie”, as dead people were floating by.
You BetCha...Fer Sure.
Exactly. It's like Stimulus money sent with no specific direction. It ends up in the pockets of politicians rather than to projects that is supposed to raise people up with jobs and security.
While Haiti continues with their corrupt government and no firm set of laws and policies of how to take care of their ctizens disasters like this will continue.
Prayer is all these people have. Their government has turned their backs on them. The government knows the Red Cross, the Hollywood crowd, and other countries will come to the rescue. They don't have to lift a finger.
Until citizens rise up and say ENOUGH to the government. Till they start demanding that the government rule as they are supposed to, nothing will be done. The country is still a mess from the earthquake of 2yrs ago.
jstdafacts;
It should have been done by the Mayor of N.O and the Governor of LA, dummy. What happened to the local disaster plans, oh that's right the Democratic Mayor and Governor didn't have one, except for themselves. They fled the state to save themselves while their citizens died. They left fleets of buses to be flooded that could have carried thousands to safety. The people themselves, sat like sheep waiting on their masters to save them, apparently not knowing they could leave on their own.
It took the governor 3 weeks to ask for federal help, 3 weeks. Where was the contingency plan. As you know, or should know, states are sovereign, as such federal help can only come when requested by the governor of said state. Like all good little brainwashed Brahmin, you parrot what you hear on CNN, Nancy Grace, the DNC. Facts are a foreign concept to you. The separation of powers section and the rest Constitution might as well be written in Farsi, since you have clearly never read it.
You suffer from leftist indoctrination. Just as others follow blindly the right. What stupid little sheep you are. I see clearly what politicians are, criminals, liars, con men and thieves, party means nothing. It's a pity you can't. Sit like the people of N.O. waiting on your masters to feed you, cloth you, give you shelter and be amazed when it doesn't happen. Poor little mindless sheep. The elitists will walk across your rotting corpse to grab their next ill gotten million without a second thought. Your death will mean nothing to them.
Sarah Palin can see Haiti from her Kitchen Window. "OH look Todd, this is a future version of America's Middle Class". "If we can get all of Our Republican TeaBilly Conservative Evil Legislation against da Middle Class Passed"
You BetCha....Fer Sure.
She will learn there was a hurricane in Haiti 11 months from now and see it as another photo op, like the earthquake 11 months later.
You're kind of trapped in the past aren't you? What is your fascination with Palin? Try to stay on topic: Big storm, small island.
Why do these women get bring a child into the world knowing it will suffer its entire life in poverty & sickness ? One don't need a 1st grade education to see what's going on around you.
Larry
I find it funny that a person who calls himself 'jstdafacts' has ,so far, based every comment he has made on propaganda, bias and lies.
You do realize that it was a SNL skit and not actually Palin that said she could see Russia from her window.
TehDjinn:
Them are the facts... Well at least that is what he has been brain-washed to think.
jstdafacts;
Please change you screen name. Facts are lost on you. Palin is old news. Break free of you leftist time warp and see the world for the politician generator s**t hole it has become.
Sounds like Haiti is going to get it again. It makes me wonder where all the stars are now 2 years after the earthquake. You know the ones...worth over 100 million dollars. On television showing us horrible pictures of people in poverty and ruin. Begging us, the people making minimum wage, to donate. We can make a difference. Where are they now? Getting a new tattoo? Getting a $10 coffee? Buying a 5 million dollar home? Where are those stars now. Haiti hasn't recovered much at all. Where did all the money that they raised go? Why do they beg us poor people to give, give, give, than disappear until the next disaster? Are they going to come out again and beg us for more money? There lifestyle has not changed one bit and probably has gotten much better in the last two years. Most of the rest of America has stayed the same or gotten worse. And Haiti hasn't changed much at all. Where is that money? Going into hurricane season, be very careful who you donate too, and make sure you know where your money is going.
Haitian people are lazy for one. The money most likely went to their corrupt government. Haiti turds are just like the blacks here in America. Always looking for a handout, who gonna gib me a dolla? All they know how to do is breed, use up resources and lay around all day. Known fact, give these animals seeds to plant a farm and grow more food they will eat the seeds instead. Someone has to grow the food for them, they are just too stupid and lazy to do it for themselves.
I would like to know how many of the people making comments and passing judgement on the Haitian people have actually been to Haiti? I lived in Haiti for several years and there is not a more hardworking people. If you want to know where the money donated went??? Ask the organizations that collected it. If you don't have any basis for judgements, keep your mouth shut. I wish you could experience what I have, children dying in your arms of malnutrition. How cruel can you be???
ibbo:
I am thinking that 95 cents of every dollars are for 'processing fees' the rest gets sent over there to help rebuild.
"Don't you just love Florida? The hurricane winds are just the right speed!"
Mitt Romney
I don't recall ever meeting a good looking Haitian. I bet if scientists take a closer look at Haiti they will find the missing link still walking around there.
Shame the storm didn't take out the whole island.
We are the world..we want your money..The people want a better life, so keep on giving....sing with me now!! I'll keep my dollars, you keep the change.
Haitians are an extreme lower class destined to stay that way. Too many babies that they cannot afford and expect us to feed-sort of like the entire continent of Africa. Wonder what that connection is?
I bet it has to do with the dark side.
what a stupid childish idiot M J how old are you 12
Ignorance
ibbo
You might be on to something describing MJ with ignorance. Ignorance is described as not knowing any better, where as stupid means knowing better but still doing the same. I would like to believe Ignorance beats stupid any time because you can learn from ignorance, not necessarily so by being stupid.
Mike 1667539
However, if stupid is apparent, then so be it
This hurricane path lashing a direct hit on the poor of Haiti and then bearing down next in direct coordination with the start of the Republican Convention can only be seen as a sign of the marginal differences between extreme deep poverty of the homeless of Haiti and the over saturated pompous wealth of the supporters of Romney and his Republican greed. If Haiti gets a direct hit in the next few hours the impact on the majority of their people living in nothing more than government tents will be devastating on the already homeless. Within hours those same winds that caused mass destruction to Haiti will resurface around the 5 star high rise hotels of Tampa Florida housing some of this countries richest crooks who will carry on with this convention not ever mentioning what impact this hurricane has just left in its path of destruction in Haiti. It will be interesting to see if a single speaker even mentions the peril going on in Haiti and those that do will mention Haiti not with any measure of true concern but rather more because it's fashionable and the right thing to say. In the end we will see two news stories showing images of thousands and thousands of homeless black people with nothing more left than the clothes on their back walking in muddy sewage followed by images of rich white people in $500 custom tailored business suits carrying on as only corporate scum can without a care in the world for the poor in Haiti and surely not the poor of this country..
With all the money that Romneys supporters who will be flying in to Tampa this week to meet with Romney there isn't a chance in hell we will see a single one of these fat cats, never mind a group of them, pool their money and offer a donation to the people of Haiti. Yes there will be a great deal of money changing hands in Tampa this week but unfortunately it will be going into the pockets of the wrong people..
Slow Train:
Do a little research and you will find that out of the top 20% of the richest people in the USA 75% of them are Democrats...
You want to pass around the basket or should I?
T-R-O;
Thank you. Politicians, by nature not party are liars, criminals, con men and feel they were somehow destined to govern. Elitists all, scoundrels all. No matter the party they have one thing in common, If their mouths are moving, they are lying to you.
America is HAITI.Unfortunantly the middle class hasn't figured it out yet.Once the 1% have drained the resources they resourcefully move on to the next resource.And we are left picking up the pieces and no resources.
I bet you a bunch of OWC people will head down to help.
Oh, excuse me. I thought the comments were about the Haitians..... not New Orleans.
Same plight...different place.... The only real difference is New Orleans deserved what it got (with Mayor Nagen and his cronies stealing all of the money sent there for the levies for years!).....the truly poor of Haiti probably don't....
We have thousands of people in the U.S. who are homeless and a lot of these homeless people are working middle class americans, I am tired of the U.S. always sending millions of of our tax money over seas to these countries and trying to help people that dont want to even help themselves and other countries that use the money to buy weapons and come back and attack our country, our country is on on the verge of going broke millions of americans are out of work and now homeless, our schools cant even afford the basic teaching materials to educate our children, this war cost us more lives and more money because of our government defending Isreal, what has Isreal done for us I dont see any other countries offering to help the U.S. and they never will, they thik that we all have money and our country is rich, so they expect hand outs everytime something happens, no one is helping us my family lost their home after working all their lives, we have no health coverage now that were older, we have worked hard all our lives just to pay for a home for half of our lives and then have the banks take it away not because were lazy and dont want to work, but because we lost our jobs or cant find work and all because our country is sending all our money overseas and spent millions on these war, its called government financial mismanagement and misuse and pocketing our tax money we need to be able to manage our own money, why should people work hard and have their money taken from them and sent to these moochers over there, we are completely going backwards in our this country instead of forward thanks to these crooked politicians, from the time since Busch ran for president until now for the first time in my life I truly dont even want to go to the polls and vote for these people, and I have voted in every election, just because these guys run for president it doesnt make them god there like the rest of us there a lot of people in this country that have more education and experience then these people running for the presidency, putting one person in charge of millions of people to me is crazy their ego is bigger then their ability to make the right decisions for the rest of us.
all that but you know Mitt is out to stick it to you personally. nobody comes close to getting all they want. if your waiting for that fuhgeddaboutit
Do your research and find out how much Millions of TAX money your president is sending to nations that are against the US of A in every meeting in the United Nations. Countries like India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Irak. Most in the Middle East.
I hope each and every one of you vile people are reincarneted as Haitians, Syrians, Iranians, Africans or Mexicans. Spoon fed pricks who all think you are better than everyone are pathetic low life ass nuggets. You are all in bed with the whore and you will pay the price for your selfishness and arrogance.
i am not real sure they make meds for your condition, but see a doc anyway ok.....................:)
no problem. i'll do myself if the Haitian thing happens. ewww
Maybe Ya need to be in THEIR Shoes! They don't even have THAT!