Haiti - Page 2

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

Why no identification? How will they identify the body?

You don't want them to.

BigV · 01-04-2012, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

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

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

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

Converting the savages?

See pm

HungLikeJesus · 01-12-2012, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

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.

01-02-2012, 10:46 AM	#16
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01-12-2012, 09:02 AM	#22
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Converting the savages? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-12-2012, 10:02 AM	#23
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	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. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-13-2012, 07:15 AM	#27
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	So, are you going, Mr. Hung? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-13-2012, 07:58 AM	#28
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I'd say 85% chance that I am. My goal this month is to learn a little French and some Haitian Creole. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-12-2012, 03:29 PM	#26
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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.

01-13-2012, 09:20 AM	#29
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	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.

01-13-2012, 09:52 AM	#30
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Sure, I need a translator. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

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