It's awful isn't it DID?
And the hospital scenes really choked me up too - injured people lying amongst bodies, and needing treatment but not enough doctors to help them.
Does anybody know if the estimated 50,000 dead is the biggest death toll in an earthquake - it's an horrific figure.
God bless them all and all those who are helping them.

It is such a huge tragedy I don't think that anyone knows what to say DiD.

Awful
Nearly 40,000 have died. 3 million homeless. That`s the figures so far.
The scale is overwhelming.

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It is so tragic.

No police, no firebrigade, no ambulances, no-one to help
Violent prisoners have escaped..looting is rife.
Chaos beyond comprehension.

It's horrendous. And we moan about a bit of flippin snow..

I cant bring myself to watch the coverage of it, just reading about it is bad enough.

It certainly puts things into perspective

You are dead right Dematoid. My dad said that to me today when I moaned about the a problem with the water and electricity supply to our area. I was deeply ashamed. The images on the the tv have reduced me to tears...

What is so terrible when a disaster hits these kind of counties, it's the seriously poor who suffer so badly. I would love the aid raised be seen to help those people first.

The news coincided with me watching a programme about Marbella.
Bianca Gascoigne and equally shallow friends all having a Champagne splash party or something of that ilk - basically pouring bottles of Champagne all over each other.
They should be shown some of the footage in Haiti and then be asked if they still want to throw thousands of pounds about.
Makes you sick.

Was the Marbella programme live Moomin?

No. it was a documentary by Piers Morgan

But you see what I mean don't you Scotty?

I nearly put a moaning snow status on my fb this morning, then thought about this tragedy and deleted it.  Yep, it sure puts things in perspective.

Moomin, no offence, but I don`t see the relevance. I dislike their pampered lifestyle as much as you but what has that got to do with the tragedy in Haiti?

I know Joe, I wish there was something I could do apart from making a donation. A primary school collapsed on around 700 children, people gasping for air trapped under rubble.....utterly devastating My problems are nothing to theirs and as already said, moaning about abit of snow makes me feel ashamed...

None taken, Scotty - I guess I was just comparing their selfish hedonistic lifestyle with those in Port au Prince, and the fact that it was broadcast at around the same time as this news.
Sorry.

I've moaned a lot in the last few weeks even though I had a great Christmas surrounded by a loving family and friends.
Those poor people hadn't got over the hurricanes in the late 90s and now this.  Donations to the Red Cross and smaller charities usually go straight where it's needed.

DEC have taken it on board.  That's an umbrella for 13 charities.

http://www.dec.org.uk/

Some of them are religious too but it seems to be an efficient way of doing stuff as they share appeal costs etc.

Thank for that Daniel, I'll make a donation later when my eyes aren't so blurry!

No need for sorry Moomin.  I understand why you felt like that. It`s a very emotional time

As if those poor people haven't suffered enough and now this disaster.

Its heartbreaking all those poor souls, and heres us moaning about the snow and bins not being emptied, puts everything into perspective eh.

Oh lordy. The 'human interest' stories!  

"A two-year-old boy rescued from the rubble of his home in Port-au-Prince became a symbol of hope today as increasingly angry Haitians waited for help after this week's devastating earthquake.

Redjeson Hausteen Claude looked stunned and bewildered as he was pulled free but broke into a broad smile of recognition as he was reunited with his ecstatic mother, Daphnee Plaisin, and father, Reginald Claude."

I'm at work and I keep looking at that picture and

Latest update, fingers crossed help gets there soon....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8460574.stm

I can't remember reading about another country so devastated by both natural and man made disasters

As if not having the Duvalier's inflicted on you, they've suffered so much loss with hurricanes and earthquakes.  

I see from the news that lots of search and rescue peeps have arrived to help with the search but I doubt there will be many to rescue as the buildings aren't quake proof   it's saddening to see the bodies being piled up at the side of roads as well

Certainly puts all our woes into perspective.

Watched the news earlier...and although aid is being sent, it isn't getting through while would be rescuers are kicking their heels in the Dominican Rrepublic..it's a terrible tragedy

So am I, and it's just made me do the same