Mapou/Death Toll at 2000/is this accurate?

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toby

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Canadian News feeds are reporting that in the town of Mapou, on the Haitian border in the south west/central west regions along the DR border there are 2000 reported deaths due to flooding in this one town. Deaths are reportedly high on both sides of the border. News footage only showed the Haitian flooding by air. Most footage concentrated on swamped crop fields. Can this be confirmed.
Would like also to have the reliabe contacts for the international efforts for aid monies to be sent to the area for use to help the survivors. At present the DR Red Cross seems to be the only contact for individuals here in Canada to approach with donations via our Canadian Red Cross system.
I personally earge anyone who would like to help in relief efforts to contact the Canadian Red Cross branch in thier district and to consider helping the people of both the DR and Haiti during these tragic times.
The DR and Haiti are in our thoughts and prayers tonight as the death toll mounts.
Toby
 
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Dolores1

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We don't have much information on what has happened in Haiti. I would suppose the tragedy there is many times greater than what happened in the DR.

What they are seeing is the result of all the deforestation that has left Haiti treeless over the years. This could happen again if major forestation efforts are not started in Haiti. The problem overflows to the DR border area because the rivers start in Haiti. Most of them have dried out, but when there is that rare hard downpour for several days, ff there are no trees to contain the waters, they return to their old routes and by the time they enter DR territory, the waters are in full force.

The tragedy of the small town that was wiped out in the DR border with Haiti could have been avoided. The local civil defense people alerted the town that they were in danger, but the people did not heed the warnings, as the rains were not that hard. It was the accumulation of all the waters that caused the damage. I suppose on this end, preventive actions will be taken and next time people will evacuate when told so. But Haiti needs all the help it can get, and especially ways have to be found to put back the trees and make the people aware of the importance of not cutting these down.

See the thread http://dr1.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31858 for how to help the towns affected in the DR.
 
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