# Haitian earthquake **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159 "2010-01-13T12:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159/101 "2010-01-16T13:29:24Z")
fuckin kids man… ![http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2010/01/world/gallery.large.haiti-1/images/Haiti_photo3.jpg](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2010/01/world/gallery.large.haiti-1/images/Haiti_photo3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159/102 "2010-01-16T13:33:02Z")
jesus ---
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159/103 "2010-01-16T13:34:33Z")
last I saw they have accounted for over 50,000 dead already. ---
**Author:** ![BigEd88](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/biged88/32/5064_2.png) [@BigEd88](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigEd88)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159/104 "2010-01-26T20:48:51Z")
always thought Haiti was considered a bit of a no-go, warzoneish type place, here’s an article on the topic of what our military is up to over there in the relief efforts: [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2010889377\_italiancriticismofreliefeffort.html](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2010889377_italiancriticismofreliefeffort.html) “Some of the first medical responders to hit the beach were Coast Guard medics from the cutters Tahoma and Mohawk. It was Air Force personnel who reopened the Port-au-Prince airport — providing not only continuous air-traffic control, but maximizing use of a pitifully small aircraft parking-area. The main port would still be closed were it not for Navy Seabees, Navy divers and the Coast Guard cutter Oak — the only buoy tender in Haiti.” ---
**Author:** ![Vrooom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vrooom/32/7198_2.png) [@Vrooom](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vrooom)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159/105 "2010-01-26T23:49:39Z")
They pulled someone out alive today. Pretty freaking amazing. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584013,00.html?test=latestnews](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584013,00.html?test=latestnews) _“A Reuters witness said the man, covered in dust and dressed only in underpants, was rescued by soldiers”_ Question…why are these people always in their underwear when rescued? What was he doing in a store in his underwear? And, totally serious question that’s been driving me nuts: Why is it that in every single photo I’ve seen of the mass graves, or scenes of makeshift morgues over the 2 weeks are the bodies either A)naked or B)the clothes are barely on the bodies (i.e. shirts up around necks, pants around ankles, skirts/dresses up around necks, etc)?? And this is all before serious decomposition or anything. I realize while pulling bodies out from the rubble clothes can be torn off or twisted around and such, but every single body is naked(ish). ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159/106 "2010-01-27T06:13:49Z")
We should use that money and build a killer vacation resort there, where we can pay the local people a minimal wage to service our every need. Really stinks though, big :tup: for the military getting things operational over there quickly. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haitian-earthquake/78159.md?page=5)