15th Anniversary of Haitian Quake

[AlterEgo]

Today is the 15th anniversary of the big Haiti earthquake. We were doing major renovations to our house so we were staying in Santo Domingo at night. Mr AE and I, along with his mother, were at our house when the ground started swaying. We all got dizzy and my chair moved side to side. We didn’t know what was happening, but we locked up and headed back to SD. On the way, two of his brothers called to say it was a big quake and there was a tsunami warning (thankfully never happened). Haiti has never recovered.

 

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In fact it's worse now.

 

[CristoRey]

I remember sitting at a friend's bar in Pattaya, Thailand watching news footage of the Palace in Port-au-Prince thinking to myself "I wonder how much more of my hard earned tax payer dollars are going to be tossed into that dumpster fire"
It ended up being hundreds of millions and to this day the place looks the same as it did 15 years ago.