Haiti earthquake

As an aside, our city editor has been busy localizing this since it broke. Good on her.

 

Presidential palace:


http://tweetphoto.com/8610565


http://tweetphoto.com/8611269

Interesting point: RT @RAMhaiti If the Montana Hotel and the Hotel Christopher are gone, I don't know where UN leadership is

Also, some great-but-heartbreaking photos just squirted out of Haiti on http://twitter.com/photomorel -- looks like the photog set up the feed just for this event.

 

are there that many now?

 

Tebow forbid anything derail another Hannity-Skeletor Barbie mutual masturbation session.

 

Here's a before pic, for reference:

 

The focus of the networks that were covering it was embarrassing. Haiti is basically on its knees - hell probably worse than that - and ALL they were focused on were the American interests in that country.

 

The quake struck at 4:53 p.m. local time. That meant kids were out of school, which saved them from those collapses. But the parents were still at work, which means there are going to be a ton of orphaned children.

 

Colts WR Pierre Garcon, whose family emigated from Haiti, is tweeting about the quake:

http://twitter.com/showtimeP85

He's been involved in missions to Haiti:
http://www.facebook.com/PierreGarcon/posts/255132962224

Per the Indianapolis Star, Garcon is having a news conference later today.

 

Via @AP_mobile, a Catholic priest on the ground in Port-au-Prince says the archbishop of Port-au-Prince is dead. CNN says over 100 members of the UN mission are unaccounted for, including the chief of mission and the deputy special representative.

 

MSNBC reporting that the main prison in Port-au-Prince has collapsed and inmates are on the loose.

 

Prime minister tells CNN 'hundreds of thousands' are dead. Not likely verifiable, certainly now, possibly not ever, but gives an idea of the scale.

 

My first reaction to this was disbelief that Haiti had that many residents to begin with. Amazed to learn the population is around 9.8 million.