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Fall Rains Bring Havoc to Haiti | Essentials

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Fall Rains Bring Havoc to Haiti

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Premier League and DEC unite to tackle famine by DFID - UK Department for International Development
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The rainfall has tapered off and floodwaters no longer claw at homes, but the situation throughout much of Haiti continued to be grim on Tuesday following a fall of penalizing rains that have eliminated scores of individuals and that threaten to cause even more appetite throughout the impoverished nation. In locations such as Croix-des-Missions, on the northeastern edge of the Haitian capital, the walls of dozens of homes along a pale brown river have been broken or ripped away, exposing clothing, bedding and everything else to the duplicated downpours. Heavy rains started falling in southern Haiti even prior to Hurricane Sandy passed just west of the nation 's southern peninsula the night of Oct. 24, dropping even more than 20 inches of rainfall within a 24-hour duration. "It took away my whole home.

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Solange Calixte

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0"It took away my whole home. Now I don't have anything," said Solange Calixte, ...
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Sandy, Calixte

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Johan Peleman

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0.0519935"This means massive inflation, hunger for a lot of people and acute malnutrition," said Johan Peleman, ...
0.0809234"This means massive inflation, hunger for a lot of people and acute malnutrition," said Johan Peleman, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti. "Basically, the cushion is gone."
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Organization: United Nations

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NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Sandy

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