Flooded

It is heartbreaking to see these pictures from the AP in Haiti. At least when we have a hurricane in US...and yes, they can be terrible...we have resources. In Haiti there are very limited resources and sometimes none at all.

As one person put it "we have given up on the dead for now and are just concentrating on living".

As a *weather person* put it, "Haiti doesn't need another hurricane, a tropical storm will be devastating".

And here comes Ike. Yes, it is raining right now in Haiti, again, as I write this. If you are a praying person, or someone that believes in positive energy and thoughts, what ever the case, please direct your energies towards the forgotten people of Haiti. They really need it right now, more than ever. My friend Mandy posted the latest news on her site.

Searching for drinkable water

As for our kids, my girls, I'm not exactly sure where they are right now. I'm pretty sure they are still in PAP. What happened is this: they moved the "O", meaning everything but the kids. Moving the children actually means getting approval from IBESR, which was set about the time Faye happened, then Hanna, now Ike...making the roads even more difficult, if not impossible.

You may ask,"what do you mean you don't know exactly where they are?" Admittedly that is a pretty alarming statement, but if you have been to Haiti, you understand that in the best of times phone service, electricity, clean water, are not things to take for granted. Right now it is difficult to get information out of Haiti except for the news service. But the last word I got was the kids were still in PAP and they were OK. The few kids in the other location were also OK. It's the terrain in-between that is not (see first photo).

So again I ask you, please direct your thoughts and prayers towards the people of Haiti.