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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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Cap-Haitian is covered with water. Haiti Government Responds to Storm Devastation

A storm system pummeled Haiti where the North and West Departments in particular sustained major damage. At last count 8 people were reported dead, and 4,500 evacuated to shelters set up at local schools.

Communes of Cap-Haitien and Cabaret experienced flood conditions with some towns such as Blue Hills, Grand Riviere du Nord, Limonade, Limbé, and Bahon navigable only by boat. In Roi Henri, at Christophe University, the flood waters hampered students from getting to classes. Conditions in coastal areas have had the greatest impact economically with houses and gardens submerged beneath flood waters and livestock drowned.

In Cabaret the Government of Haiti under its National System of Risk Management and Disaster has distributed 4,000 hot meals, 1,000 food kits, and 200 cots. Equipment such as shovels and wheelbarrows, and water purification tablets are being handed out in the North Department.

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In Fonds-Verrettes the ravines are flat, with water running through which makes it a tempting place for the residents to live in. However, the residents of Fonds-Verrettes have a fearful story attached to the ravines. The area is prone to storms and lethal storm waters from the mountains flow through the ravines. A devastating storm happened in 2004 in Hurricane Georges when storm waters washed through leaving 680 locals dead and several others homeless. The cost of these floods is being felt even to date and the town is now growing away from the path of the storm waters.

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I had an opportunity this February to tour Fonds-Verrettes and was able to see the great work that Plant with Purpose has been able to do for the community. Plant with Purpose began its mission in Fonds Verrettes in 2004 a time when the area experienced devastating floods that saw over 4,000 people die in both Haiti and Dominican republic along the border. For the three days I spend there I and the visiting partners were able to witness the transformation that Plant with Purpose has brought to the region through development programs. The program has empowered Haitian powers enormously and there has been Environmental, Economic and Spiritual transformation in the area. Our visitors had time to relate with local farmers and our regional Plant with Purpose staff.

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Lake Azuei, a disaster in the making for region of Thomazeau, Ganthier, Fond Parisien, La Source and Route Nationale 8.
Lake Azuei is slowly and steadily swelling, destroying homes and farms as well as disrupting trade by occasionally blocking key cross-border highway. It has been expanding by about three feet per year for the past 10 years, growing to 52 square miles or 134 square kilometers

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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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This is the great flooding in the city of Cap-Haitian. As a result of the flood, the water in the city has reached a level never seen before in Cap-Haitian

Stormy weather in Haiti often brings catastrophic results. The impoverished country is heavily deforested, which causes flooding and deadly mudslides.

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This is the great flooding in the city of Cap-Haitian. The second Haitian city is under water. This situation took place on November 2012. It was reported that close to 12 people died as a result of the flood

Stormy weather in Haiti often brings catastrophic results. The impoverished country is heavily deforested, which causes flooding and deadly mudslides.

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