The tragedy continues

Now the estimates are 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless. Click the post title to read the article in the Deseret News. This particular statement caught my eye and reminded me of the other terrible emotional and environmental trauma the survivors experience:

Looting and violence flared again Monday, as hundreds clambered over the broken walls of shops to grab anything they could — including toothpaste, now valuable for lining nostrils against the stench of Port-au-Prince's dead....

On the capital's southern edge, thousands of people struggled to get onto brightly painted "tap-tap" buses heading out of town.

"We've got no more food and no more house, so leaving is the only thing to do," said Livena Livel, 22, fleeing with her 1-year-old daughter and six other relatives to her father's house in Les Cayes, near Haiti's western tip.

"At least over there we can farm for food," she said.

She said she was spending her last cash on the "insanely expensive" bus fare, jacked up to the equivalent of $7.70, three days' pay for most Haitians, because gasoline prices had doubled.