Orkaan Hannah

Ook Haiti heeft veel last van de orkanen die momenteel in het caribisch gebied razen. Vandaag kregen we de volgende update van de directrice met als belangrijkste bericht geen doden of gewonden voor het weeshuis van Ziggy.
Naast schade aan het bestaande weeshuis heeft de nieuwbouw ook behoorlijke schade opgelopen.
Laten we hopen dat ze het ergste nu gehad hebben.

Update 4 september 2008

TROPICAL STORM HANNAH

Tropical Storm Hannah came rolling over Haiti on Monday evening and continued through Wednesday morning about 3 AM. We weathered the storm of Hurricane and nobody was hurt. We are very thankful. We lost the Internet satellite dish at the Toddler House and the solar panels on their roof. Their metal gate was also broken in the wind!

At the main house, the balcony roofs suffered damage and the one over the babies' balcony was actually ripped off of the house! Lots of leaves laying around and the house is full of them. The wind blew rain in around the window frames and through cracks and my dining room table was covered in water this morning and the floor surrounding it! I've attached some photos of the destruction.

John has just been called by someone on the new property. Trees are down and our new gates that they recently installed have been blown in and off the steel posts! The gates are huge and weigh a lot. The higher up the mountain you go, the more damage we see. He is heading up there now to assess how much damage there was.

Trees and walls in the community are down. But lots of people out this morning cleaning up. So things should be back to normal soon. God kept us safe and I am so thankful for all of your prayers.