eyeflygps wrote:Half Fast wrote:Hmmm. Maybe I should load up the Triumph and evacuate to N Ga for a few days. Wanna ride?
I've looked at a few of the news pics of Haiti. I spent 10 days in Leogane on an engineering mission trip last Feb, very close to where the eye of the storm passed. This has to be devastating for that area. Many people are living in 10x10 hovels made of plywood sheets and scrap siding. The poverty and filth are unimaginable if you haven't seen it for yourself. Most of the region is only a few feet above sea level and the storm surge is going to wash all the garbage and sewage everywhere. I suspect the death count will climb for many months as infections and disease and polluted water take their toll.
Sad.
We might get hit here in Florida, but at least we have places to go in evacuation and resources to deal with the aftermath.
I've been to Haiti twice. The poverty there is astounding.
Amazing display of the impact of political corruption. The Dominican Republic, on the opposite side of
the same island, having the same climate, natural resources, etc., is in much better shape.
It's not just the poverty, either. It's the incredible filth. Garbage everywhere, raw sewage running down open storm drains, contaminated water and food, pigs and goats eating garbage in the streets, ....
Many organizations and countries have tried to help in many ways over the years. It never gets better, and the people have become dependent. There's a sense of entitlement and a certain expectation of charity. The people I met there were wonderful, kind, generous, loving folks, but generations of poverty and corruption have shaped a failed society.
The Haitians I met would walk a mile to bring you a can of soda, but not ten feet to dispose of the empty can. Everything gets tossed into the street, the yard, the sidewalk, the gutter,....
Astonishing place.
