Port-au-Prince is now a city where most people are sleeping outside at night (estimates put it at 80 percent of the residents). I drove back to our camp just after dark a couple of nights ago, rushing to meet our own night-time curfew. At street corner after corner, people had blocked access to their blocks by placing stones in the way. They didn't want vehicles rushing blindly in and injuring sleeping families. I looked up these blocks and saw winding ribbons of re-created bedrooms, demarcated with bedsheets and string, as far as my eyes could see in the dark.
That's Monte, via Andrew Sullivan.
A great at look at what’s happening on the ground in Port-au-Price by two US teachers living there.
http://www.benandkatieinhaiti.com
I was just browsing the Gainsville Real Estate website when I came across this interesting article. After a major earth quake like that, you can’t expect people to feel safe inside their homes. And they are quite lucky that the climate actually allow them to sleep outside.
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