Having a Haiti moment at JFK: there is apparently debris all over our runway (source?). We have to go around, on a bus, dragging our bags. #
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Having a Haiti moment at JFK: there is apparently debris all over our runway (source?). We have to go around, on a bus, dragging our bags. # live chat NOW! where we report LIVE from Haiti on our medical disaster relief trip – http://tinyurl.com/y8qr92g # How quickly we humans normalize even the most extreme scenario – as long as we see it over and over. By now, it seems perfectly normal for our fringed-draped bus to 4-wheel it over piles of rubble. We automatically get out and walk up the steep dirt-road hills of this large urban city while she […] Even the predawn day began a little differently. The shrill distant stadium cheers of hundreds of Haitian roosters sounded oddly synchronized, as though perhaps they were doing the wave. There were more dogs keeping the beat with incessant, rhythmic barking. Dogs in Haiti are everywhere underfoot, seemingly ownerless. It is something of a shock, after […] Live chat/webinar from Haiti with Doc Gurley and Dr. Enoch Choi – tonight at 8PM EST, 5PM PST – http://su.pr/9J9tu4 # Setting up clinic in a new place. People sweep (even dirt) & apologize constantly for rubble and disorder: http://tweetphoto.com/11761893 # We drive pass a mini-one-person market on the edge of the sidewalk with […] Setting up clinic in a new place. People sweep (even dirt) & apologize constantly for rubble and disorder: http://tweetphoto.com/11761893 # |
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