Hard to fathom

[Baz]

When you think that you've seen HORROR, something one ups it......the pictures from Haiti are beyond description...........while many here are facing challenges of their own, but for those of us who are feeling the weight of the more normal vagaries of life, a look at those photos, and a sense of how profound the losses and destruction, will be very sobering.

Look at your residence, look at the food in the pantry.......feel the warmth of your blanket...........and you are sober

[hoops]

Baz, i think many of us feel the same.
peace
hoops

[Rickster]

Baz, Yes, I agree.Profoundly sobering! Everyone should be extremely thankful for what they have after looking at those pictures. Houses are just "Things". Life on the other hand is precious!

[marjan]

I find it horrifying to see a certain US vicar saying on tv that the Haiti people made a deal with the devil a long time ago to get rid of the French invaders and that they suffer since then :mad:

[Bat]

The Haitians suffered more under the levying of Reparations to the French than they ever would from a deal with the Devil. I think Robertson has made his own deal, frankly. May he meet his benefactor very soon.

Houses are just things, true, but it helps to have one that doesn't fall around your ears when an earthquake comes, and buries you or breaks your bones!
Those poor benighted people have no wood, no agriculture any more, no trade to speak of, no nothing. It is the only 3rd world country in the Western Hemisphere, and the fact that all the other nations let it exist as such is shameful!

[Baz]

I'm sure Rickster meant much of what you are saying Bat. One's life in and of itself, and the lives of those around you, not material things, are what matters, but the horror is that there are no homes in Haiti, and those that were homes are now decaying morgues. Homes seem to be in a separate category apart from materials, like records, saunas, tv's......but shelter is part of the needs of the life force of humans.
The country is so poor that there are no large vehicles to move heavy debris. And the gov't has disintegrated, there are no troops, no organized first responders.................now I have 3 days off, and if God allows it to be peaceful, what does it matter what I do....just typing here in the warmth of my home is divine.........listening to music, dinner out with family one night, it's a three day weekend commemorating the birth of one who was so brave to lead people to freedom........and while we celebrate that in the American way, but having a day off from work and having special sales in stores :) , an island is turning into a grave..........how horrible, virtually inconceivable. If we didn't have digital film and all the video aids, we couldn't imagine this is happening.....how horrific.

B.

[Bat]

Can you imagine what it is like being a Haitian in America, watching what is happening to your country, your people, and wondering if that body under the blanket/sheet/quilt is perhaps a beloved family member of yours? My God.
Sometimes, TMI.

[Baz]

I would think, and this must have been written elsewhere, that tragedy is tragedy, but when China had the earthquakes, and other nations, there is an infrastructure, and gov't, so action is immediately taken, no matter how severe. In Haiti, there are no police, there are no pieces of heavy equipment to move boulders........this seems like a nation of lost souls and no one to help but outside nations; the US should feel obligated to help, but you can't simply move all the necessary equipment and person power in without securing what the airport can receive, the ports............and you are a separate nation, so 1, 4, 8 nations descending could be touchy just from the point of international law.

oh, the more I write, the more unreal it is......certainly feels like Katrina where bands of people were going thruout the streets and such a delay occurred in help.....now we can see how tragic that was, that was our Haiti to some extent....

B