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footfootfoot 01-02-2012 10:46 AM

Well, it's comforting to know that zombies won't actually eat your brains. See you in 16 years then!

kerosene 01-02-2012 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 784324)
Why no identification? How will they identify the body?

You don't want them to. :eek:

BigV 01-04-2012 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 784336)
By your Prince Albert?

not... the one in the can, right?

yikes.

Gravdigr 01-04-2012 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 783941)
Do you have any good survival tips?

1. Don't drink anything.
2. Don't eat anything.
3. Try not breathe.
4. Stare at your shoes.
5. Don't look up for anything.

Gravdigr 01-07-2012 02:41 PM

Also this. Ugh.

from AFP, via YahooNews

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Haiti cholera death toll nears 7,000

Nearly 7,000 people have now died from cholera in Haiti in an epidemic which has become one of the worst of recent decades, a top health official said Friday.

Jon Kim Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, said that as of December, on top of the deaths, the Haitian government had reported more than 520,000 cholera cases with 200 new sufferers appearing each day.

Andrus said it was "one of the largest cholera outbreaks in modern history to affect a single country."

There are also 21,000 cases in the neighboring Dominican Republic where there have been 363 deaths, Andrus said at a briefing for the second anniversary of the January 12, 2010 earthquake which killed more than 225,000 people.

The cholera outbreak erupted in October, 2010 and has been widely blamed on a camp of UN peacekeepers from Nepal. Lawyers representing victims have demanded the United Nations pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation.

Andrus said Haiti needed a huge campaign to improve its supply of drinking water which various international institutions had estimated could cost between $746 million and $1.1 billion.

The international community has already given impoverished Haiti $2.4 billion in humanitarian aid in response to the quake.

Rebeca Grynspan, a UN under-secretary general at the UN Development Programme, said about 50 percent of the quake debris had been cleared -- some five million cubic meters of concrete and tangled steel.

TheMercenary 01-12-2012 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 783941)
I'm scheduled to go to Haiti next month for business (50/50 chance, at this point). Have any dwellars been there? Do you have any good survival tips?

I'll mostly be in Port Au Prince (PaP) and surrounding environs.

I plan to take several energy bars and some powdered water.

My daughter went on a Mission Trip with a church group last year. It really depends on who you are going with of if you are going to be on your own. You definitely need a full time guide and driver if you are on your own.

HungLikeJesus 01-12-2012 09:02 AM

Converting the savages?

TheMercenary 01-12-2012 10:02 AM

Sort of... she had a few situations where things got a bit dangerous but they were protected by a group of guards, Hatians, hired by the group they went with. There are numerous parts of Haiti that are quite dangerous and given the current social situation you need someone local to guide you around to stay safe and out of trouble.

TheMercenary 01-12-2012 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 787015)
Converting the savages?

See pm

HungLikeJesus 01-12-2012 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 787015)
Converting the savages?

Thanks for not taking offense.

I need to work on my sensitivity.

Sundae 01-12-2012 03:29 PM

Whether religion was involved or not, I sincerely admire your daughter for going somewhere dangerous and uncontrolled, whatever her reason.
It must have been out of her usual life experience, so that's courage.

HLJ I get that it's business. But I respect your "business as usual" perspective too. Even in the most dangerous of places, it does help countries get back on their feet.

monster 01-13-2012 07:15 AM

So, are you going, Mr. Hung?

HungLikeJesus 01-13-2012 07:58 AM

I'd say 85% chance that I am.

My goal this month is to learn a little French and some Haitian Creole.

infinite monkey 01-13-2012 09:20 AM

When they were considering sending my dad to the Ivory Coast I told him I could teach him the only french he really needed: Je voudrais une biere, s'il vous plait. Or something like that.

He actually became fluent in spanish after spending years working in Costa Rica.

Can I go with you? I'm sick of Ohio. ;)

HungLikeJesus 01-13-2012 09:52 AM

Sure, I need a translator.


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