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Hurricane
National Contingency Plan has no Plan for Tropical Storm or Hurricane
As Hurricane is expected to bear down on Haiti, motivated the island's National Contingency Plan (NCP) to release information of what to expect when the storm landed. NCP offered no preparedness tips, but a litany of alarming predictions: the death rate will soar, rural migrations to urban areas will multiply, and disease will be endemic.
More than half a million nationalists are in danger; a 100,000 increase from 2012's forecast. The government is unable to provide adequate services for the ballooning populations.
Hurricane Tomas
Hurricane Tomas affected Haiti in the sense it caused floods and the spread of cholera. Hurricane Tomas was the nineteenth named storm of the 2010 hurricane season. As it approched Haiti, Tomas increased in intensity and gained hurricane status. On November 5, ih was just 38 miles west-southwest of the western tip of Haiti