REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Imagine waking up to an earthquake just about a decade after another quake killed 250,000 of your brothers and sisters and destroyed your beautiful country. Via LionelMoise.
Plus, there's a low vaccination rate in the middle of a pandemic killing more than 4 million around the world, and now another natural disaster. And in a worst-case scenario, the earthquake happened right before a massive storm barreled toward the island, after nearly 2,000 were killed in the recent earthquakeAn injured patient is loaded by volunteer medics to a school bus to be transported to a hospital, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Aug. 19, 2021.
We have a saying that our people are resilient. This has been demonstrated throughout history. Despite all the cards being stacked against the country, somehow we always find a way to push through. From a collective decision to fight for freedom from slavery, becoming the first Black country to gain independence in 1804 -- to the way the community comes together in tragedy.
My uncle is a doctor and immediately rushed to the affected areas to help after the earthquake struck. While he is one of my heroes, he is not special. During tragedies, everyone pitches in, somehow finding a way to bring a smile or some sort of positivity, as the world literally crashes down.Structures in Haiti are built to withstand hurricanes, which are common. But the tough concrete buildings that withstand wind and rain in a storm become deadly in an earthquake as they fall.
It is traumatic to witness the pain families are going through. It is traumatizing to hear from friends who lost multiple loved ones -- again. To see hospitals overwhelmed, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed leaving people with nowhere to go. It's like walking through a nightmare that you've already experienced, praying it will have a different ending.But there is inspiration and hope. It warms my heart to see the volunteers risking their lives to save others.
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