Day 1 night Haiti
There are hundreds of thousands of people living in tents or under tarps in Haiti. Last night I was one of them. It started to rain a bit by midnight and then by 2a much harder. Around 3 I felt wet. The bottom of the tent felt soft and pliant… like I was floating. I poked my head out of the tent. The grassy back yard of Melissa’s Hope Orphanage had turned into a pond and I, with all my belonging, was surrounded by water. I hurriedly packed computer, camera, underwear, everything I had brought to Haiti for the next three weeks , and dragged all including tent to higher ground. Then I spent an hour drying the tent and hanging my wet belongings. Finally I lay back down listening to the rain lash the tent. Knowing that, like me, hundreds of thousands of others were lying in tents on the Haitian plain unable to sleep because of the rain. And the roosters began to crow as dawn broke over Haiti. MR
Posted On: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Posted In: Our Blog Posts
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Tip: If you have one, put your sleeping pad under your tent. This will keep your tent drier in rainstorms and potentially lift you from the puddle.
Glad you are there, Mike. I would join you if I could.
I was okay until the water got more than 6″ deep and I had the computer and everything else in there with me. Went to sleep on a dry lawn with clear skies. pascal did tell me they had a problem with water. If it hadn’t happened we would never have done the drainage system.