Big_Stingman Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 EDIT: Haiti got hit by another aftershock today, measuring a 6.1 on the Richter Scale. Just .9 less then the original earthquake last week. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2612241/another_haiti_earthquake_brought_on.html?cat=9 So I assume most everyone has heard about the earthquake in Haiti. Thought I would start a topic about it. First of all I express my sympathy to anyone there or who has family/friends there. Basically for this topic I just wanted to try and see what people think about whats going on with Haiti. Please share and discuss your opinions on what happened, what should be done, and what is being done. Haiti Earthquake "Strange," Strongest in 200 Years http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100113-haiti-earthquake-red-cross/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Do they have casualty estimates yet? My mom said she heard over 100,000 but that seems a little too many to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noble_aloof Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 A girl from my school was having a young man from Port-au-Prince to come stay with her family. the earthquake hit the day he got his visa. her family hasn't heard from him. such a tragedy [size="5"][font="Georgia"][b]Staking:[/b][/font][font="Palatino Linotype"][color="#FF0000"][/color][color="#FFFF00"][/color][color="#00FF00"] 4+ mil[/color][/font] [font="Georgia"][b]Current Status:[/b][/font][font="Palatino Linotype"][color="#FF0000"][/color][color="#0000FF"] Training defense [/color][/font][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord_man Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Do they have casualty estimates yet? My mom said she heard over 100,000 but that seems a little too many to me.Probably at least 2,000+ No one knows, I saw one of the first news head lines and it said that they didn't know if anyone died till the photos started to come in. Then things got worse. And that was right near the capital too...Man, I hope for the best in Haiti. 99 FM Acheived on Friday December 26th 2008Click for my blog|Mass Effect Discussion Thread|Nation Creation/Create your own Country Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neos_Matrix Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Yeah, I was watching this on the Chinese Channel. When i first looked at the map they were showing, I thought it was Alaska, but later on, I found out it was Haiti :-| My dad's still ranting about how I don't watch the news :-X Barrows Items: 1x Dharok's Platelegs, 1x Veracs's Plateskirt, 1x Dharok's Greataxe, 2x Torag's Platelegs, 1x Akrisae's War Mace, 1x Ahrim's Robeskirt, 3x Akrisae's Robetop, 1x Guthan's Warspear, 1x Akrisae's Robeskirt, 1x Torag's Helm, 2x Verac's Brassard, 1x Karil's Pistol Crossbow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 The picture of the Presidential Palace was stunning. What would the reaction be if the White House or Buckingham Palace were destroyed like this? It's really sad that such a horrible thing happens to a very poor country like Haiti. Last.Fm My Bloggy Proud to have served on Tip.it Crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenticular_J Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I know there are no official casualty estimates yet, but there are 2 million people within 5 miles of the epicenter of the quake alone, along with millions more further out. Bad stuff. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1_man_army Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Do they have casualty estimates yet? My mom said she heard over 100,000 but that seems a little too many to me. They don't know how many people have died yet, the 100,000 was an estimate by the Haitian President - that's where the number came from. He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart,and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorLepRecon Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Here's the yahoo article as well: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake I've heard of estimates exceeding 500,000 people lost. We'll have to see how many lives were actually lost. I'm glad a tsunami didn't form after the earthquake. Forum Updates & Suggestions <------ Let your voice be heard!Forum Games <------- Coolest place on Tip.ItTip.It Forum Rules <------- Read them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkbullet3 Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Maybe my school should take a month off and head down to Haiti to help with clean-up/reconstruction. : \ It doesn't make any sense to just hear about it and feel sad because it doesn't change anything down there. Although, it's what the majority of us are doing at the moment. :-( ^ Blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Oh and today's Boston Globe's The Big Picture was about the earthquake: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord_man Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Here's the yahoo article as well: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake I've heard of estimates exceeding 500,000 people lost. We'll have to see how many lives were actually lost. I'm glad a tsunami didn't form after the earthquake.I looked at the slide show they have next to there articles, the damage is horrible, the amount of damage is scary to see it. I also read that over 3 million are homeless from this. Glad that the UN, Red Cross, WHO, and at least a few countries (China, US, Canada, many European nations, etc) are helping out. Such a terrible disaster... 99 FM Acheived on Friday December 26th 2008Click for my blog|Mass Effect Discussion Thread|Nation Creation/Create your own Country Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magekillr Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Action Against Hunger: http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/where-we-work/haiti American Jewish World Service: https://secure.ajws.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3460&3460.donation=form1 American Red Cross https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?4306.donation=form1&idb=520717783&df_id=4306&s_subsrc=RCO_NewsArticle Americares http://www.americares.org/newsroom/news/deadly-earthquake-strikes-haiti-2010.html Baptist Health Mission: http://www.bhm.org/bhm/index.php Beyond Borders http://www.beyondborders.net/index.php Catholic Relief Services: https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3181&3181.donation=form1 Childcare Worldwide: http://www.childcareworldwide.org/ Direct Relief International: http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx Doctors without Borders: http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm?id=31 Feed My Starving Children: http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=415 Food For the Poor: http://www.foodforthepoor.org/ Habitat For Humanity: http://www.habitat.org/ Haitian Health Foundation: http://www.haitianhealthfoundation.org/ Hope for Haiti: http://www.hopeforhaiti.com/ International Committee of the Red Cross: http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/haiti-news-130110 International Medical Corps: http://www.imcworldwide.org/Page.aspx?pid=183 International Relief Teams: http://www.irteams.org/index.htm Medical Teams International: http://www.medicalteams.org/sf/Home.aspx Meds and Food for Kids: http://mfkhaiti.org/ Mennonite Central Committee: http://mcc.org/stories/news/mcc-respond-haiti-earthquake-donations-welcome Mercy Corps: http://www.mercycorps.org/ Oxfam: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/ Operation Blessing International: http://www.ob.org/_programs/disaster/disaster_index.asp Partners in Health: http://www.pih.org/home.html ReliefWeb: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&rc=2&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI Salvation Army: http://blog.salvationarmyusa.org/ Samaritan's Purse:http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ Save the Children: http://www.savethechildren.org/ UNICEF: https://secure.unicefusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6680&6680.donation=form1 USAID: http://www.usaid.gov/World Concern: http://www.worldconcern.org/ World Food Program: http://www.friendsofwfp.org/site/c.hrKJIXPFIqE/b.5027069/k.8AF0/Featured_Appeal.htm?msource=updates World Vision http://www.worldvision.org/ Yele Haiti: http://www.yele.org/ There's my contribution to this thread. (I like Partners in Health ;)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mrmegakirby Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 500,000 casualties according to the news program im watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastortoise Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 There's a huge Haitian population here in Montreal so there's already a bunch of programs to help give donations and stuff like that but nothing can really help these people... It's just natural disaster after natural disaster. Added to their terrible poverty, Haiti is the prime example of a country that can't catch a break. I have at least 10 Haitian friends spazzing out on Facebook, some angry and some sad, all full of despair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkbullet3 Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 What good does getting angry have when there's all this chaos? ^ Blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenticular_J Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Luckily an Air Force special forces group made it to Haiti and set up a makeshift control tower at the airport (which will undoubtedly become the busiest in the Caribbean in the next few days), which should help tons with all the aid efforts. Until now, they'd been discussing moving supplies and volunteers via boat or car from the Dominican Republic. Would've taken hours. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 What good does getting angry have when there's all this chaos? Repressing the anger wouldn't help either. Some people simply can't help, but that doesn't mean they can't feel bad for what happened/is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Such a tragedy. The people of Haiti have my deepest condolences. "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 And things were just starting to get better on the economic side... I don't mean to say that anyone deserves this, but really, it had to happen there? :| I tried to organize a fundraiser tonight (we're celebrating Latin classes tonight at my school) but the principal objected to that. I had everything planned, too... Matt: You want that eh? You want everything good for you. You want everything that's--falls off garbage can Camera guy: Whoa, haha, are you okay dude? Matt: You want anything funny that happens, don't you? Camera guy: still laughing Matt: You want the funny shit that happens here and there, you think it comes out of your [bleep]ing [wagon] pushes garbage can down, don't you? You think it's funny? It comes out of here! running towards Camera guy Camera guy: runs away still laughing Matt: You think the funny comes out of your mother[bleep]ing creativity? Comes out of Satan, mother[bleep]er! nn--ngh! pushes Camera guy down Camera guy: Hoooholy [bleep]! Matt: FUNNY ISN'T REAL! FUNNY ISN'T REAL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zilla Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I feel bad for these people, my heart goes out to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord_man Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Tragic. I've heard casualtie estimates everywhere from 2,000 to 2 million. Can anyone shed some light on this? Its not as high as 2 million, the Red Cross Said at least 50,000. Te Prime Minister of Haiti Said 500,000. Those are some of the highest estimates so far. Its probably 100,000+ though. 99 FM Acheived on Friday December 26th 2008Click for my blog|Mass Effect Discussion Thread|Nation Creation/Create your own Country Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_mumm_ra Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 2 million would be intense, that'd be more than the tsunami in indonesia killed those few years ago, and that was the worst natural disaster to date, if my history channel programming wasn't telling me lies. [hide=WOO TEXT! updated Jan 19, 2009 (last quote)] And Evil you mad bastard. You are definately bringing TET back up to it's glory. No doubt about it. Keep it going champ.24,485th to 99 defence on 7-23-08I always forget you're 20 too. I always think you're 25 or something. o.oYa think that I'm insane, Its not sane... its not saneobligitory devart link: http://evil-mumm-ra.deviantart.com/Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.She isn't naked so it's legal.I'm a porn star.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord_man Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 2 million would be intense, that'd be more than the tsunami in indonesia killed those few years ago, and that was the worst natural disaster to date, if my history channel programming wasn't telling me lies.The single most deadly earthquake was an 8.3 in China that killed 800,000. I doubt that a 7.0 could kill up to 2 million. Its going to be up past the Indonesian Death toll, which saddens me greatly. 99 FM Acheived on Friday December 26th 2008Click for my blog|Mass Effect Discussion Thread|Nation Creation/Create your own Country Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSBDavid Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I wish I had the money to fly over and help with the relief effort. I helped with Katrina and it made a huge impact on me personally. [software Engineer] - [Ability Bar Suggestion] - [Gaming Enthusiast] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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