Via The Guardian, a long, unhappy report from Port-au-Prince: Aftermath of hurricane Sandy leaves Haiti facing new disaster. The conclusion:
On the radio, people hear how the US has suffered as a result of Sandy and they sympathise. But, although it was the same storm, its impact seems to have played out in two different worlds.
Reports that electricity was slowly being restored in New York contrasted here with villages that had no electricity to begin with.
Dieula Geffrard lost her home and her husband in the 2010 earthquake. The refugee tent she and her four children moved into afterwards was destroyed by a storm the same year.
Her portable home in Kafou Desruissaux, about an hour's drive from Port-au-Prince, has now been inundated with mud.
"My home wasn't strong enough to withstand the floods, which took away my bed, clothes and shoes," she says.
She counts herself lucky, though, to be alive. After the waters subsided, she found the body of her neighbour, the town tailor. "This place has been forgotten," says Geffrard, "Please help us."
