Well to make matters worse, a 6.0 aftershock has Hit Haiti at around 630 AM this morning. Those who are attempting to aid the Western Hemispheres country are encountering a logistical nightmare. With no infrastructure in place such as hospitals, roads, usable sea ports, or power, Haiti will continue to get worse before it gets better. This earthquake was the straw that broke the camel’s back and from this Haiti will need to be rebuilt literally from the ground up all over again.
From the WSJ:
“The WFP said it needs to deliver 100 million ready-to-eat rations in the next 30 days. Based on pledges from the United States, Italy and Denmark, it has 16 million in the pipeline.
Even as U.S. troops landed in Seahawk helicopters Tuesday on the manicured lawn of the ruined National Palace, the colossal efforts to help Haiti were proving inadequate because of the scale of the disaster and the limitations of the world's governments. Expectations exceeded what money, will and military might have been able to achieve.
Governments have pledged nearly $1 billion in aid, and thousands of tons of food and medical supplies have been shipped. But much remains trapped in warehouses, or diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.
To Recap the original quake: The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 35 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince and was 6.2 miles below the surface. Last week's magnitude-7 quake killed an estimated 200,000 people in Haiti, left 250,000 injured and made 1.5 million homeless, according to the European Union Commission.”