Haiti Earthquake?

[Marigold2]

I too could not watch long, it breaks my heart. The suffering will go on for a lifetime. Many of these children will have nightmares for years, some might never feel safe again in their homes. The far reaching efforts of this is more then most of us can bear, so we change the channel and watch something that amuses us, all the while their suffering goes on. I hope that we as a people do not forget them next week when new Tiger Woods news comes out.
The faces of the children haunt me so...............

[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