HAITI
Life After the Earthquake
Life After the Earthquake
By far this is one of the saddest things I ever photographed. While in Haiti for eight days, I visited three different "tent cities". These tent cities are everywhere throughout the entire country. When flying into Port Au Prince, all you could see on the ground were blue tarps scattered everywhere.
These tarps are great, but in reality are just a temporary fix. Any day now it will downpour for an entire week, nonstop! These tents/tarps will soon begin to dry-rot, rip, and blow away.
One of the most troubling things for me is, It has been reported that these earthquakes are not finished over there. There was an earthquake expert who went to the epicenter and did not like what he saw. What he saw was a few cracks in the road. What he should have seen was a huge hole in the ground, and he did not. He had reported that within a months of the first quake, another will most likely happen because there is still a great deal of pressure under the earth.
These tarps are great, but in reality are just a temporary fix. Any day now it will downpour for an entire week, nonstop! These tents/tarps will soon begin to dry-rot, rip, and blow away.
One of the most troubling things for me is, It has been reported that these earthquakes are not finished over there. There was an earthquake expert who went to the epicenter and did not like what he saw. What he saw was a few cracks in the road. What he should have seen was a huge hole in the ground, and he did not. He had reported that within a months of the first quake, another will most likely happen because there is still a great deal of pressure under the earth.