Hurricanes, Haiti and 'Hell on Earth'. By Marc Lacey, NYTimes, September 7, 2008. "Hurricane Ike barreled west across the already beleaguered islands of the Caribbean on Sunday, raising the death toll and destruction... In Haiti, where the fourth-largest city, Gonaïves, remained underwater from Hurricane Gustav, rain fell and at least 10 more people died... By late Sunday the number of people reported killed in Haiti just from the effects of Hurricane Ike reached at least 58. The total of those killed in Haiti in the recent storms was in the hundreds. In Cuba, where relief efforts from Hurricane Gustav were under way in the west, the government evacuated vulnerable communities as the new hurricane bore down... with heavy winds and rain that could total 10 inches... 'What I saw in this city today is close to hell on earth,' Hédi Annabi, the U.N. special representative to Haiti, said in Gonaives... where children were chasing trucks carrying food and shouting, 'Hungry! Hungry!'"
2008-09-08
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