| Gonaives, Haiti, the way
of Babylon, after four potent hurricanes - September 18-23, 2003 |
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| A man with dried mud on his face cleans his home in
Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval
pleaded for long-term assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly
Friday, Gonaives, Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of
Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased in mud. Children
play in it and adults try to remove it with muddy buckets and rags.(AP
Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| A Haitian woman cooks inside her flooded house in the town
of Gonaives September 20, 2008. Haiti has been blasted by four storms -
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna - since
mid-August, killing hundreds and destroying homes and crops.REUTERS/ Eduardo
Munoz (HAITI) |
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| A man removes mud from a pot in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday,
Sept. 21, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for long-term
assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday, Gonaives,
Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm
Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased in mud. Children play in it and
adults try to remove it with muddy buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana
Cubillos) |
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| Hands covered in mud in Gonaives, Haiti, Saturday, Sept.
20, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for long-term assistance
in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday, Gonaives, Haiti's ravaged
fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane
Ike, remains encased in mud. Children play in it and adults try to remove it
with muddy buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| Haitians rest from cleaning their house of mud after
floodings in the town of Gonaives September 21, 2008. Haiti has been blasted
by four storms - Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna
- since mid-August, killing hundreds and destroying homes and crops.REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz (HAITI) |
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| People try to remove mud from their house in the town of
Gonaives September 20, 2008. Haiti has been blasted by four storms -
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna - since
mid-August, killing hundreds and destroying homes and crops.REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz (HAITI) |
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| A girl stands in a muddy street in Gonaives, Haiti,
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. The floodwaters from three hurricanes and a
tropical storms are receding and leaving Haiti with mud-caked streets.(AP
Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| A man cleans up a mud-filled room at his home in Gonaives,
Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for
long-term assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday,
Gonaives, Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of Tropical
Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased in mud. Children play in it
and adults try to remove it with muddy buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana
Cubillos) |
