Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Aftershock Terrifies Desperate Haitians Anew

Despite the fact that the death count in Haiti is already up to 200,000 and the homeless count is up to 2 million, an aftershock earthquake, measuring 5.9 proceeded to shake the country yet again this morning a little after 6 am. People are now terrified to stay in their surviving homes out of fear that they will collapse, or that another aftershock will hit. Looting is on the rise and nothing seems to be looking better for the country already in ruins. The U.S. Navy hospital ship is now in use and is actively helping victims, particularly those that are severely injured and in need of immediate assistance. According to this article, several other warships carrying crucial medical supplies and personnel is slowly trickling into Haiti. There were 2000 more peacekeepers sent by the U.N. to add to the already existing 7000 that are there. There is some appearance of normalcy persevering through all of this though. Some vendors have found flowers to sell to those who want to honor their dead, banks are said to reopen so that money can be wired into Haiti from those that are abroad. Unfortunately, things don't seem to be changing all too fast for the better and as a result, many Haitians are losing hope.

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