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7.0 earthquake In Haiti
Topic Started: Jan 12 2010, 08:33 PM (3,137 Views)
brittany

Not all the 150 are coming here. Some were going to Holland and France.
Edited by brittany, Jan 19 2010, 12:32 PM.
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DukieInKansas

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Jan 16 2010, 06:59 PM
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6822953/
Roanoke Rapids minister dies in rubble in Haiti
Posted: Today at 2:09 p.m.
Updated: Today at 5:00 p.m.

Raleigh, N.C. — The Roanoke Rapids minister leading a humanitarian effort in Haiti died there Saturday, a spokesman for the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church said.

The Rev. Sam Dixon and two others in leadership roles with the United Methodist Committee on Relief were at the Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince Tuesday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the city Tuesday.

Reports that Dixon had been freed from the rubble safely Friday were incorrect, said Bill Norton, communications director of NCCUMC.

The Rev. Clinton Rabb, head of the United Methodist office of mission volunteers, and the Rev. James Gulley, a former missionary, along with other mission and relief specialists were evacuated from Haiti Friday, Norton said.

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Rev. Dixon was the director of UMCOR - United Methodist Committee on Relief. If you are looking for a place for donations for Haiti, I would suggest this as a good place. Any donations go 100% to Haitian relief work. All overhead for UMCOR is covered through congregational apportionments. Any donations go 100% to the relief effort - whether in Haiti or other specified mission.

A link to information about UMCOR: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/UMCOR/about/
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Bill Anderson
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Thanks, Brittany. My wife is on it, and that means she does not rest until she has an answer. The NYC adoption is going nowhere, thanks to the bureaucrats there who have been leading us on for months.

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brittany

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Jan 19 2010, 01:44 PM
Thanks, Brittany. My wife is on it, and that means she does not rest until she has an answer. The NYC adoption is going nowhere, thanks to the bureaucrats there who have been leading us on for months.

:bill:
Good lucik!

The 54th child is arriving today with the other sister (young woman, not religious). Seems it was a "home alone" situation. The kid got lost or left behind. The young woman would not get on the plane without the kid.
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Rusty Dog
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Bless you, Bill. And Mrs. Anderson, too.
:angel: :angel:


We will await the announcement of your success.

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Big aftershock...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A strong earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday morning, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by a previous quake.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.1 magnitude quake hit at 6:03 a.m. (1103 GMT) about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince. It struck at a depth of 13.7 miles (22 kilometers) but was located too far inland to generate any tidal waves in the Caribbean.

Wails of terror rose Wednesday from frightened survivors of the apocalyptic quake that struck eight days ago as people as people poured out of unstable buildings.

It was not immediately possible to ascertain what additional damage the new quake may have caused.


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Rusty Dog
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On the Montana Hotel thread, retiredLEO said "Apparently there is no one in charge of "search and rescue" operations."

Here two links to the story about a friend of mine who made his way down to Haiti to rescue the director of the children's home who was badly injured. My friend brought the director out of Haiti, got him to a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale and then brought him to his own home where he is now receiving care in NC. With the continued help of Hearts with Haiti, Bill will return as soon as he is able to continue to care for his family of street orphans and to rebuild the home.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation_world/story/295487.html

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1954743-1,00.html

Sometimes you have to take things in your own hands and not wait for the officials.

Even though my heart is warmed by this story, I am very much in prayer for the kids from Lynn University still in the Hotel Montana. Please continue your prayers for them, that their rescuers will arrive for them.

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Rusty Dog
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:SarC:
I am so encouraged to learn that 0bama has made a personal donation to the charity he sent Bill and W to run. $15,000. whoo hoo! What a big spender!
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Jan 21 2010, 04:36 PM
On the Montana Hotel thread, retiredLEO said "Apparently there is no one in charge of "search and rescue" operations."

Here two links to the story about a friend of mine who made his way down to Haiti to rescue the director of the children's home who was badly injured. My friend brought the director out of Haiti, got him to a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale and then brought him to his own home where he is now receiving care in NC. With the continued help of Hearts with Haiti, Bill will return as soon as he is able to continue to care for his family of street orphans and to rebuild the home.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation_world/story/295487.html

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1954743-1,00.html

Sometimes you have to take things in your own hands and not wait for the officials.

Even though my heart is warmed by this story, I am very much in prayer for the kids from Lynn University still in the Hotel Montana. Please continue your prayers for them, that their rescuers will arrive for them.

I admire his courage and his freedom to travel to Haiti, but his friend wasn't buried under tons of rubble. Unfortunetly, the Lynn students and teacher need more then just one or two people. They need a teems of trained rescuers to get to them, if that is even possible. Why couldn't the Lynn administrators contact a S&R team, to investigate and see what they could do. Seem's like there is no coordination, they seem to be acting independently. As you say we can only have these victims in our thoughts and prayers.
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Jan 21 2010, 04:38 PM
:SarC:
I am so encouraged to learn that 0bama has made a personal donation to the charity he sent Bill and W to run. $15,000. whoo hoo! What a big spender!
What do you want from a man who is a millionaire?? Do you know how many Allen Brothers steaks you can buy for $15,000 will buy? :SarC:
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Rusty Dog
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LEO, you are right. We don't know if Bill's injuries would have become life threatening if he hadn't gotten treatment; he did fall 7 stories, and I'm very happy for his situation now. But, the Lynn students are still in great peril.
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Madonna gave $250K, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie gave $1M each, and Gisele Bundchen gave $1.5M.

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brittany

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Jan 21 2010, 04:48 PM
Rusty Dog
Jan 21 2010, 04:36 PM
On the Montana Hotel thread, retiredLEO said "Apparently there is no one in charge of "search and rescue" operations."

Here two links to the story about a friend of mine who made his way down to Haiti to rescue the director of the children's home who was badly injured. My friend brought the director out of Haiti, got him to a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale and then brought him to his own home where he is now receiving care in NC. With the continued help of Hearts with Haiti, Bill will return as soon as he is able to continue to care for his family of street orphans and to rebuild the home.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation_world/story/295487.html

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1954743-1,00.html

Sometimes you have to take things in your own hands and not wait for the officials.

Even though my heart is warmed by this story, I am very much in prayer for the kids from Lynn University still in the Hotel Montana. Please continue your prayers for them, that their rescuers will arrive for them.

I admire his courage and his freedom to travel to Haiti, but his friend wasn't buried under tons of rubble. Unfortunetly, the Lynn students and teacher need more then just one or two people. They need a teems of trained rescuers to get to them, if that is even possible. Why couldn't the Lynn administrators contact a S&R team, to investigate and see what they could do. Seem's like there is no coordination, they seem to be acting independently. As you say we can only have these victims in our thoughts and prayers.
Lynn University did hire their own search and rescue people thru their insurance company. My question is what is our government doing??
Edited by brittany, Jan 21 2010, 11:21 PM.
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Rusty Dog
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Not much at the Hotel Montana, apparently.
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brittany

Search and rescue comes to end.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7051910/Haiti-earthquake-search-and-rescue-mission-comes-to-an-end.html

Haiti earthquake: search and rescue mission comes to an end
The UN has switched the work of its Haiti disaster relief teams from search and rescue operations for people trapped in wrecked buildings to humanitarian and medical aid for homeless refugees.

Published: 11:28AM GMT 22 Jan 2010

Some "exhausted" aid workers are starting "to go home" ten days after the Haiti earthquake hit and as rescuers increasingly started to pull bodies, rather than survivors, from the wreckage of cities and towns.

Remaining search teams, using heavy equipment, have remained for the grim task of recovering up to 100,000 corpses still entombed across the shattered country.

"The rescue teams are concentrating more and more on humanitarian aid for those who need it," said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokesman for the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

International search and rescue teams, co-ordinated by the UN, successfully rescued over 130 people from the rubble, a record number for an earthquake disaster, according to aid chiefs.

Aid workers will now battle to house 500,000 homeless Haitians living rough in and around the destroyed capital of Port-au-Prince to prevent a looming refugee crisis or a second disaster caused by disease and hunger.

Tens of thousands of Haitians have gathered at the capital's harbour, which partially reopened on Friday, hoping to flee the earthquake's aftermath and continuing aftershocks by sea.

Getting the main port, which was badly damaged by the Jan 12 earthquake, working again is key objective for the US military to land the massive international aid shipments Haiti needs to recover from its worst disaster in 200 years.

At least half a million people are living outdoors in improvised camps, the International Organisation for Migration said on Thursday.

"The situation is in flux and there is no one size fits all for shelter solutions," said the IOM Chief of Mission, Vincent Houver. "Tents will not work in May when the long rainy season begins and later when hurricane season starts."

The Haiti Press Network agency reported on Thursday that an "exodus without precedent" was underway as people headed out of Haiti's capital for the neighbouring Dominican Republic or beyond.

"Cuba, the Bahamas, Miami, they are without destinations, provided that they arrive in a city, far from the Haitian capital," it said.

US officials have begun work making refugee facilities at America's Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba ready for a wave of Haitian migrants.

The UN's Refugee Agency estimates that 23,066 Haitians are already refugees abroad.

Daily flights of US Air Force EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft - airborne radio stations - have been broadcasting warnings that would be migrants will be intercepted and "sent home".

To help get the message across the US military is distributing 50,000 portable solar-powered and wind-up radios as well as food aid to Haitians.

US Coast Guard officials said that, while there were currently no signs of a mass migration, a refugee crisis was to be expected, with Haiti's northern coast a likely point of departure.

Edited by brittany, Jan 22 2010, 10:57 AM.
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