The people of Haiti are once again bracing themselves for the hurricane season: this time last year the country was devastated by four hurricanes in just one month. The Guardian reported:
‘The four tropical storms, ending with September’s Hurricane Ike, turned Haiti into a wasteland. Nearly 800 people died, about 60 per cent of the country’s harvest was destroyed and entire cities were rendered desolate and uninhabitable. Life in the western hemisphere’s poorest country went from grim to desperate. Weeks later, the floodwaters have receded and the dead are buried, but millions of cubic feet of mud remains, rendering cities such as Gonaives sticky, squelching versions of Pompeii.’
