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Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince

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1Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:07 am

rosencrentz

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The country builds buildings without any rebar, because rebar isn't required because there are no building regulations.
The results- all buildings are down, including the Palace and the U.N. building.
The scenes are horrible!

http://www.elansofas.com

2Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:21 am

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Global warming is blamed for the devastation!
This was predicted 20 years ago!
200 years ago, when JTF and GOM were working there, there was another big earthquke. That is why the 2 old men of this forum moved back to Winnipeg!

http://www.elansofas.com

Deank

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Canada to donate 5 mill.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/canada/2010/01/13/12447586.html


i thought we had some sort of rapid response rescue type division that could be airborne in 24 hours to any destination in the world and once on ground could purify water for 50000 people or something like that?

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ahh DART

thats it

http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/canada/2010/01/13/12449541.html

and yep we are deploying. Good. Times passed we attempted to deploy DART and countries have refused.

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Ya. Those were the ones that just wanted money eh. tsk tsk tsk

Deank

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preferred money .... supposedly because they did not like our military being on their soil because we would do evil things.....

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You know what our response to that should have been eh.

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yup

ahh.. dont want our help? kthxbye

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exactly....but we probably sent millions to their despot leader.

10Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:47 pm

Deank

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well we ended up getting in.. only after 10 days of negotiations whilst people died...and yes giving more money.

11Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:58 pm

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I made a donation, through the Mennonite Central Committee. Anyone else donate or planning to do so?

12Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:00 pm

Deank

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I contributed to matching you dollar for dollar for your donation.

13Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:05 pm

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We are having a fundraiser/bake sale at my kids preschool...all monies raised will be donated.

14Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:12 pm

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makes more sense to me to move everyone off of Haiti since apparently only 1 in 50 people have a job and the living conditions before and after the quake are not that much different for about 20% of the population.

15Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:15 pm

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I've always wondered how Haiti is so poor while neighbor Dominican Republic is not known as being as poverty stricken.

16Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:15 pm

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Goth_chic wrote:We are having a fundraiser/bake sale at my kids preschool...all monies raised will be donated.

Excellent!

17Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:16 pm

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Triniman wrote:I've always wondered how Haiti is so poor while neighbor Dominican Republic is not known as being as poverty stricken.

better management

18Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:28 pm

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of course.. according to Pat Robertson its because they made a deal with the devil 200 years ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html

19Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:49 pm

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Deank wrote:
Triniman wrote:I've always wondered how Haiti is so poor while neighbor Dominican Republic is not known as being as poverty stricken.

better management

That kinda goes without saying. I was wondering about the specifics. Perhaps DR is not cursed.

20Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:54 pm

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heh... to be honest they have had pretty much the same ups and downs for most of the last 500+ years. Heck at one time Haiti actually invaded and took them over. But recently DR started agressively going after the tourism industry and its gotten alot better since then. Plus DR owns 2/3 of the Island whilst having about the same population so more land helps as well.

21Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:33 am

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My daughter sent $50 to Doctors without borders.
The scenes of dumping some dead bodies into garbage trucks is so different from Canada. If this happened in Winnipeg, you wouldn't have to worry about decomposing bodies, but here we have the ability to respond to a horrific happening.
There is nothing there , or almost nothing! The rescue effort is herculean in size. Port-au-Prince is the approximate size of Toronto at 2.5 million.
If this happened in Toronto, the rest of Canada wouldn't have to react, because this would be a plus for the country. lol

http://www.elansofas.com

22Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:26 am

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And if it happened on a northern reserve.... we would have to do it since they returned all their body bags.

23Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:49 am

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Interesting. 65% of people who responded to CJOB's poll yesterday said they won't donate anything for Haiti. It's higher than I expected.

Also, remember how cranky and ungrateful some of the victims of Hurricane Katrina became? We're seeing that same behavior in Haiti.

24Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:54 am

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Triniman wrote:Interesting. 65% of people who responded to CJOB's poll yesterday said they won't donate anything for Haiti. It's higher than I expected.

Also, remember how cranky and ungrateful some of the victims of Hurricane Katrina became? We're seeing that same behavior in Haiti.

Yeah I was just reading about how some of the people are getting pissed that the help is not fast enough. Granted they dont exactly have a way of knowing that the help is coming, but its still frustrating to see people pissed off when the world is literally bending over backwards to help.


I am not surprised at all by the 65%. I would have thought the numbers would be higher.

25Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Empty Re: Haiti Earthquake levels Port-au-Prince Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:36 pm

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Triniman wrote:Also, remember how cranky and ungrateful some of the victims of Hurricane Katrina became? We're seeing that same behavior in Haiti.

Probably the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, devasted by an earthquake, 50,000 estimated dead, infrastructure, or what there was, destroyed, can't take 2 steps without stepping on a rotting corpse, hmmmm, I'd be cranky too.

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