Unless you are living under a rock, I am sure you heard about the awful Earthquake in Haiti that took place Jan 12, 2010 at 4:57 pm est.

From the Ambassador of Haiti..

Haiti was ‘catastrophe waiting to happen’

Haiti’s infrastructure was among the world’s worst even in the best of times, the country’s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday.

“It was a catastrophe waiting to happen,” Raymond Alcide Joseph told CNN from Washington shortly after a 7.0 earthquake leveled parts of his home country, cutting power and phone lines in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. “Sadly, it has happened.”

He called the result “a catastrophe of major proportions.” The capital city is surrounded by hills to which “little flimsy houses” were struggling to hold on, he said.

Frank Williams of World Vision Haiti told CNN from the Petionville section of the capital that the building in which his organization is based shook for about 35 seconds and did not weather it well.

(From http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake.infrastructure/  )

Tonight my heart is heavy with the great earthquake in Haiti. The capital
of this extremely poor nation, one of the poorest in the world is now
in ruins and rubble.

This happened just before dark and now as darkness fell, the cries of people
caught in the rubble ushered out into the dusty clould that hung over the
city from the crumbled concrete.

When the sun comes up, the darkest hour in Haiti’s hurrendous history will
be unvield and we that partake in noticing will shudder at the loss of life.

Who will take notice? Who will grieve with the Haitians? Who will help?
Who will Care?

I am sad ..so sad as I close my eyes tonight I do not look forward to
the day tomorrow as the light shines on Port au prince in Haiti. I have
never been to haiti, but my wife has…tonight when the showed the worst
of the worst slums in the world, a place so decrepit and filled with
violence and gangs that even police won’t go in, my heart cried out
as many many people will be dead by morning. They may already be dead
for all I know. But we are unable to see or know as there is no
electricity, no cell service in all of port au prince.

My wife was mentioning that at the time of the earthquake was typically
a time where all the children would be out bringing back water from
the wells…Wells that took them a long time to build that most likely
will all be gone by morning. The earth swallowed up port au prince..

And who will really care come a week or 2 removed from this awful
tragedy…

Who will be there for the Haitians to help them back on their feet?

We shall see…

I think this is a cross roads time in our history and my gut tells
me that most will ignore or turn their backs. For God’s sake and for
all of humanity, I hope this is not the case and we see a world come
together as one to help these desperate people who have so little
except the unity of their people who have been in peril for most
of their existence.