Daily now the clouds gather and take on a dark persona, the winds shift and inevitably an incalculable number of free falling water droplets descend on Port-Au-Prince. The forecast for this week alone predicts several inches of rain will fall in this disaster stricken city.
The rainy season is a normal, yearly occurrence in the Caribbean, but this year it seems to be ramping up earlier than usual. With hundreds of thousands still displaced and living in homes of tarp and rope, sheets and string, and other makeshift housing in Port-Au-Prince and outlying areas, torrential downpours also bring even more fear. There is trepidation that rains will cause mudslides, flood communities and disease will rise among an already vulnerable population....read more: Haitian Rains Create Quandries
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