Tragedy: The Earthquake in Haiti and OUR Response: HudsonAlpha

Dear Friends:

We are facing an immediate, devastating tragedy of unknown proportions in Haiti.

Here are the quick facts from bloomberg:

"Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake near the capital that destroyed buildings and left thousands of people dead or missing. The temblor was centered 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, a city of about 2 million inhabitants, at 4:53 p.m. local time yesterday, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. An official casualty count has yet to be announced and phone lines are out across the capital. Port-au-Prince is in “total chaos,” with clouds of dust from collapsed buildings covering the city and fears that thousands may be dead, Robyn Fieser, a spokeswoman with the Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, said after receiving reports from representatives in the country. At least 13 aftershocks with a magnitude above 4.5 have struck the area, according to the USGS."

So friends, where does that leave us? At the moment we are in the dark on this situation. Cell towers are down, the country is in complete chaos.

More soon.

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