Haiti - Local Reports (Caribbean Hurricane Network)

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- rain and more rain

By Martin Bush <mb.haiti at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:27:18 -0400

The roof has been leaking and I have 5 bright plastic buckets arranged around the door to catch the drips tap tapping down from above. The satellite images show the red and yellow splotches of colour swirling from the southwest around to the north east - a direction that seems bizarre when I normally follow the northwestward trajectory of the incoming easterly hurricanes in their season. Isn't the weather supposed to come from the East? The rain will continue over the weekend and the Agriculture Day fete on May 1 may well be a washout although perhaps the worst will be over by then. The rain has caused extensive damage as it always does in the mountainous rural areas where mud and stones and the thin layers of earth slide down into the valleys as if tired of clinging to the barren rocks.

- Fwd: news from Hosean in Haiti

By Gert van Dijken <gert at vandijken.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:14:30 -0800

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <LuciensCD at aol.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Subject: news from Hosean in Haiti

Hi All,

Please find attached the latest news of what is happening in Haiti!

Please forward to anyone you think might be interested....

Rest assured, there are good things happening!

Blessings,

Debbie for all

www.hosean.org

Attachment: newsletter winter 2011.pdf
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- Haiti Weather

By kevinjskinner at aol.com
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:51:05 -0400 (EDT)

StrikeForce weather - Haiti PAP: Weekend weather report

Haiti and with the temporary shelters, rain kills: A tropical wave is located this on the Caribbean Sea to the west of the Lesser Antilles this system could cause heavy showers and scattered thunderstorms particularly on the southern peninsula of Haiti on today and Sunday. Heavy rains particularly in the South, Southeast, Nippes, West, Centre, Artibonite and North-east. The population living and the authorities in the risk areas should remain vigilant.

Keep well and be safe

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- Weekend report Haiti

By kevinjskinner at aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:48:36 -0400 (EDT)

StrikeForce weather - Haiti PAP: Weekend weather report 18^th -19^th

Scattered and isolated T-Storms Winds easterly 5-15 mph

Note: Air-con broken, so I welcome the breeze, (Where is the repair man?) and it is starting to gust, let’s hope with little rain.

Keep well and be safe

- rain and trouble

By rudy victor <rudyvictor at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:34:14 -0700 (PDT)

At least 20 people died and some are missing resulting of flash flood and mudslides associated with heavy downpours that pounded Port au Prince for more than two hours, traffic was nearly impossible last night an early this morning as mud and debris covered the streets .its is really sad to see that nobody is doing anything against what is coming .About 47mm fell in the southern part of the city around 100 mm in the northen section i just do not want to think about a major hurricane , a slow moving or stationary tropical storm striking the country ... Its been like 21 years since ALLEN came within 50 miles of the south coast killing scores of people with more than ten hours of heavy rain and wind in port au prince and the last real strike was in 1966 when hurricane inez a cat four at landfall in the dominican republic, at a time when the country was still covered with 15 to 20 percent of forest! just imagine now with less than 1 percent a nightmare in the making ...

&n bsp; rudolph victor

- Heavy Rains in PAP

By W White <pilotmaf at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:15:28 -0700 (PDT)

Last night the Towel brigade was soundly defeated as Port au Prince got 
drenched with a heavy down pour for about hour and a half.   Thanks to Haitian 
engineering both my kids got flooded out of their rooms but did not mind 
sleeping with mom and dad.  Their balcony slope slightly away from the drain 
holes which clog almost immediately.  
We are blessed with a nice place but the people still in tents had a miserable 
night. 
This morning several main roads were either blocked with rocks/mud or the road 
was washed out.  

The airport fire department was busy washing off mud from the taxi ways and 
from around the airport.  Attached is a picture of them cleaning off our small 
taxiway from the hangar to the ramp.  They ended up blasting off as much 
asphalt as mud.

Attachment: ramp2.jpg
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