Cap-Haitian Flooding

Major flooding in Haiti as thousands of families are affected.

Since May 8, 2016, several departments of Haiti, including the North, North West, North East, Artibonite, West, Central and Grand Anse have received heavy rainfall. The prolonged torrential rains that lasted over 24 hours have caused flooding and extensive damages to buildings, transport and livestock. The report of a landslide was received from the Morne Puilboreau on the side that faces the Artibonite Department. The river 'La Quinte' and Blockhaus (St. Marc) in the Lower Artibonite and the drains of Ceinture Biénac were reported to be flooded. Over 215 houses in the city of Baradère were affected. Traffic on the National #2 was disturbed. The Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Communities gave warning of persistent bad weather which could result saturated soils, increasing the risk of flooding, landslides and mudslides. A depression on the eastern part of Cuba has influenced the bad weather condition in the whole of the Caribbean region. During the first week of May, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have almost erased the deficit of water caused by drought conditions since the beginning of 2015, with vast flooding that has killed four people in Haiti and five people in the Dominican Republic and displaced thousands of others.

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What To Expect After A Flood In Haiti

Thousands of families in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic have been displaced by flooding during a week long heavy rains and cluster of storms in the northern Caribbean. As per Haiti's Department of Civil Protection, near a dozen civilians have lost their lives, at least 6,000 families were flooded with the destruction of minimum 66 homes, a vast number of crops have been damaged, and many livestock were killed in Northern Haiti. Mudslides from the mountains have pushed many houses to no where. Since most of the disaster has gone unnoticed on the international scene, very few aid groups have come up to help. The Haitian Prime Minister has released US$741,718.50, as a fund for relief to Cap Haitien. Issues of food, water and shelter are now a much bigger problem than clothes and medicine. "For HAITI With Love", a Palm Harbor, Florida based organization is exhibiting the service of God's love--they are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick and providing shelter to the homeless.

Here is a list of thing that you can expect after a flood in Haiti:

Cholera

Homes flooded

Latrine overflow with feces everywhere

Mudslides, houses slipping off the mountain

Dead Animals representing a Health hazard

Vast number of crops damaged and livestock killed

Since people cook on charcoal, they are unable to cook

Watch out for animals that might have entered with the floodwaters

Some people will be missing as they are taken by the running water

Old home become unstable as seating water ruining their foundation

Many survivors will be displaced without food, water, clothes, electricity

Water level still increasing after rain as it's draining from the mountains

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Here is the picture of a boat in the streets of Cap-Haitian following the flood in November, 2014

Cap-Haitien's downtown area was completely underwater, and the city's rivers and ravines overflowed their banks. The Cap-Haitien police patrolling the flood areas discovered many bodies of flood victims lying in the streets, including young children of only two or three years of age. In a heart-breaking discovery, an eight-member family lost four of its members to death. Three others went missing with the father recovering in hospital. Many more flood victims have yet to be confirmed because disaster conditions make it hard to navigate through the area.

Although the government of Haiti has responded with its resources, it cannot adequately meet the demands of all four departments that have sustained major damage from the swarm of storms that assaulted the North and West Departments, the North being the worst casualty, and Cap-Haitien the worst of all. Beon through the media implores ". . . the private sector to help us because it continues to rain."

Haiti and its neighbor, the Dominican Republic, survived a series of storms that rampaged across the island of Hispaniola, displacing thousands of people. The old colonial city of Cap-Haitien seemed to get the worst of it, according to Haiti's Civil Protection Agency, who reported an estimated 6,000 homes sustained flood damage, 66 of them completely ruined. Reports varied on the death toll, between five and seven dead, and one person missing. President Martelly and Prime Minister Lamothe performed their official duties, touring the disaster area while food and aid relief supplies were being handed out to flood survivors.

Residents in afflicted areas were anxious to retrieve whatever belongings they could from their water-swamped homes, wading through knee-high water. A reported 4,000 displaced survivors were sent to temporary shelters set up at unaffected schools nearby.

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Help is on the way to Cap-Haitian. Here is a picture of KANTIN MOBIL Ede Pep on top of a flat bed truck as it is heading to the city of Cap-Haïtien for flood relief.

How long can Haitian Government subsidize its Poor?

The Haitian government's National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) is working to give a helping hand to five million-plus Haitians by 2016.

Segments of the population in need include the handicapped, elderly, destitute mothers, students, and farmers. Remedies include cash transfers, farming kits, emergency coupons, solidarity baskets, and hot meals prepared in mobile kitchens.

The U.S. has funded NSAP for $76 million, and the Haitian government has already used $15 million of it. It needs more funding to keep the program going.

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Here is a picture of several Homes in Cap-Haitian invaded with Water as a result of the flood

Cap-Haitien, which seems to have borne the brunt of the storms, completed a drainage basin project to protect the town and residents against severe storm activity that in the past has resulted in extreme land degradation.

The project:

• Rehabilitated ravines with wattling and bamboo barriers
• Safeguarded riverbanks with rock barriers
• Reforested with fruit tree saplings
• Gave local governments jurisdiction over drainage basins

An assessment of how the drainage basin project fared during the recent storms has yet to be completed, but it may reveal whatever flaws in the system need to be corrected for better protection against the next storm system.

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Here is a picture of cap-Haitian as it was flooded in November, 2014

Cap-Haitien Hard-Hit by Storm System

Farms suffered extensive damage from the storm. Agriculture officials have been out surveying the damage and its economic impact. So far an estimated damage report has not been submitted, according to the Civil Protection Agency in a statement to the media.

The government of Haiti has mobilized to respond to the crisis by generating its National System of Risk Management and Disaster. Not only in Cap-Haitien but in the entire North Department--which has been the hardest hit--officials have been distributing aid relief: food kits, hot meals, beds, sheets, water purification tablets, and more are going out. In all, four departments out of ten have suffered damage and population displacement

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This is a picture of the Historic site at the entrance of the city of Cap-Haitian. Barriere Bouteille which was the center of controvercy in November 2012 when either fans of President Michel Martelly or people wanting to create trouble painted the historical site of Barriere Bouteille in Pink

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This is the great flooding in the city of Cap-Haitian.

Heavy rains in Haiti often brings catastrophic results due to the case that it is deforested, which causes flooding and deadly mudslides.

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This is the great flooding in the city of Cap-Haitian. The impoverished country of Haiti is heavily deforested and this flood is a result of years of neglect of our environment.

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This is the great flooding in the city of Cap-Haitian. You are looking at a truck fighting the water in the streets of Cap-Haitian.

Stormy weather in Haiti often brings catastrophic results and this storm came following hurricane Sandy that already caused pain to the Haitian population

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