Long Day

Quick post as it's been a long day. This morning we met up with a team from a Dominican church and loaded a 15 passenger van and a pick up with medical supplies and water they had collected to bring with them on their trip into Haiti. This church (forgot the name but will look it up tomorrow) from Santo Domingo made their 4th trip since the quake into Haiti today. I was so impressed with their eagerness to help given the history there. They had doctors, a nurse and some translators and they're planning on staying a few days to work before they return to load up with supplies again and come back.

It took something like 4-5 hours to get to the Haitian border and then probably 3 to get from the border to Port-au-Prince. Normally the last leg takes half that but traffic was a MESS from Croix-des-Bouquets into Port. We started seeing destruction soon after we crossed the border and it got progressively worse as we got close to the city. Rubble is piled up everywhere. "Tent cities" fill in all the open spaces as people are afraid to enter their homes. Buildings are collapsed or twisted or caving in on themselves. The ride up Delmas 33 was particularly difficult as the destruction is so bad. It was emotionally very difficult to see.

I grabbed some pictures as I was driving but I'll load them later. I'm tired and tomorrow will be a busy day.