It is really wild outside. Wind and driven rain assails the house, creating noises that prevent sleep and my mind creates images of the hundreds of thousands who are trapped outside in make-shift shelters. Terrified children; Their parents unable to do anything.

It is an impossible situation, and many will die-unremarked.

Many more will die later due to Pneumonia and Cholera.

By starting a pass offshore- to the South, then swinging North across Haiti, Hurricane Isaac is not disorganized by the mountains, creating a worst-case scenario.

Torrents of water sweep everything away in their path. Flimsy shelters do to stand a chance. Some will be buried in mudslides, while others will just drown.

I will survive unharmed. But what about my Brothers and Sisters?

COLLINS

Update

7:30 AM and 500 HOUSES GONE IN Marche Dessaline, and this is just one area of permanent dwellings. One can imagine the devastation in the tent camps; Unable to move out of the way of the onslaught of the storm.

Trees and rocks block the roads. Heavy rain, but no wind.

UPDATE-

12:00, and stil no sign of Martelly or Lamothe.

Duvalier would have shared the people’s problems when he was President

2:10 PM and Victims still without Food and Water since yesterday. Martelly Government made no provisions for this.

2:22 PM PR campaign without calories. Lots of news telling of First Lady sending an ambulance around Petionville. Better send some hot rice and beans. A glass of water perhaps. Potable water is a major emergency that sees a big threat of cholera.

2:25  Isaac still devastating Haiti as it moves across La Gonave on it’s route to Cuba and the Republican Convention.