Today we did some disaster tourism. You may recognize these photos of the presidential palace in Port au Prince. How different seeing it live and in person! The destruction was much more striking! Many buildings crumbled starting with the failure of second story as you see in the palace. The second floor failed then those above pancaked down upon it. Some buildings look almost unbroken but are one story less!
Some were reduced to rubble juxtaposed with others which were untouched.
Haiti still suffers from lack of replacement construction to house the thousands of homeless. Construction has begun on many fronts but it will be quite some time before it really makes a bit of a dent in the need.
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