Haiti Earthquake?

[blue]

I wonder how many would come to our aid if we needed them.

Alot, you only have to look back to Katrina to see the amount of help was offered and how our .gov screwed that up.

My thoughts are with the victims and for those there to help.

I couldnt tell you how many earthquakes Ive been through. In a place as poor as Haiti is I would wager that even a minor shaker would have cause alot of devistation.

[orangemm]

Anytime I watch the coverage I try to imagine how I would react in a horrific situation like that and I cannot even wrap my brain around it. The initial quake was bad enough, but the fallout will continue for years.

No food, no water, no bathroom facilities, no shelter....it is indescribable.

All we can do is pray and donate what we can afford. God be with those poor souls.

How anyone can criticize, question and spread hate at a time like this is unimaginable. How dare they?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

The faces of the children haunt me so...............

Me too! I still remember the face of a little African American boy after the Oklahoma bombing. The fireman carrying him had a bright yellow blanket wrapped around him.

The little fellows eyes were so wide with fright and his lower lip trembled. He was one of the lucky ones who made it. No child should have to endure horror like that.

[pomtzu]

It seems to get worse by the day - with time running out for those still buried in the rubble. With every hour that passes, their chances get slimmer.

I had to turn off the coverage I was watching last night. It just got to be too much when they showed bulldozers loading corpses into dump trucks to be hauled away - and no one seemed to know, or just were not saying - where they were taking them. All the cemeteries are full, so it doesn't leave much to the imagination.

So many people will never know what became of their loved ones.

[RICHARD]

You'd think that I was smart enough to turn off the TV?

I've had two earthquake nightmares the last two nights.


I apologize if I have sounded dramatic.

I was in the basement of a 10 story building when one earthquake hit.

I knew one of the building engineers and he mentioned that the subfloor was a 6 or eight foot thick slab of concrete.

That day?

I watched that same subfloor ripple like a pond of water that had a stone dropped into it.


In another earthquake I saw a chocolate cake face down on a counter in my mom's kitchen....

I asked my mom and she told me that the freezer opened up, the cake flew about 4 feet, landed upside down on the counter, and the freezer door closed back up afterwards.


Nothing else fell out of the fridge.


Last story?

I heard this a while back.

Someone was checking their house after a quake and came across a bottle filled with change that was sitting outdoors, next to the home.

How it got there?

The quake lifted the house off the foundation, pushed the bottle of change out into the yard, resettled the home back down...Without breaking the bottle.

[slick]

I've just made my donation online at salvationarmy.ca

[boomersooner]

A group of people from a local church here in Dallas were down there working at an eye clinic. All initially survived, but they showed an injured woman whose husband was in Dallas, watching. Her abdomen was very, very swollen. Well, she ended up passing away....I keep thinking about seeing her talking to her husband.....she is just one of the thousands who have injuries which probably could be treated if help was readily available.....so sad....I agree...the little kids break my heart. I'm afraid things are going to turn very badly over there, too, with the access to the island so limited. I know of someone whose military unit is on alert to go there...I'm sure for some sort of order. Everyone just needs to remember them in your prayers.

[moosmom]

My good friend, Father Rick Frechette, from Haiti, receiving the Hollywood Humanitarian award, 10/09:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrXA-JnODa8

[RICHARD]

Just heard the So Cal area had a 4.3 shaker this morning, and OKLAHOMA had a 4.O quake, too.

I have heard of sympathy "pains", but this is ridiculous!

Danny Glover said, during an interview, that Global warming was to blame for the Haitian quake.

[Grace]

A letter from Satan to Pat Robertson - printed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune . . . . .

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action.

But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.

Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth -- glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven't you seen "Crossroads"? Or "Damn Yankees"?

If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll.

You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best, Satan

(LILY COYLE, MINNEAPOLIS)

[Catty1]

Oh MAN that letter is great!!!!! Kudos to the paper for running it!

[sirrahbed]

http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org has an easy to use website for donating

[RICHARD]

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14208258

Why deja vu sucks.

Sorry, wrong link!

[RICHARD]

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14208258

A look at god from the epicenter.....


I tend to think that the Haitians, always living hand to mouth, are more in tune with what god wants from them, than we are.

The news clips of the people there trying to help each other is strangely calming and a sign that people really can rise above the pain at hand.

The one thing that really does amaze me is the work the people have done to clear the areas of the dead bodies. There is nothing dignified about being left on the street as a dead body, but the fact that someone took the time to place them where they could be laid to rest shows a kind of humanity that is strangely absent here in the states.

As sad as it is to say, I don't think us Americans would be able to overcome, survive or help each other, like these he people have.

[Grace]

Watching the news last evening. A woman from Florida buried in the rubble of a grocery store, for 5 days. Yesterday she is rescued by a group of firefighters from Turkey and America. Talk about small world - the American firefighters were from the fire department in her city in Florida!!

This morning Dr. Sanjay Gupta is doing his original line of work, Neurosurgery, on the USS Carl Vinson.

NBC's medical expert, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, is also helping out the sick and injured.

As sad as it is to say, I don't think us Americans would be able to overcome, survive or help each other, like these he people have.

I don't agree with this at all. I remember after Katrina - it was ordinary people who came to help.