Ike's Unwated Visit to Caribbean

Mon08Sep2008

Ike's Unwated Visit to Caribbean

10:01 H | Topics: Cuba - Dominican Republic - Haiti - Weather

Hurricane Ike plows it's way through the Caribbean today, with Havana, the capital of Cuba in it's path.

Ike already went through Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a category 3 hurricane, killing at least 58 people in Haiti alone and one reported death in the Dominican Republic. Ike has since been downgraded to a category 2 storm, with 105 mile-per-hour winds.

Haiti has been hit particularly hard, with a death toll of at least 319 people from an unrelenting four storms in a row.

''With the others we lost houses, we lost animals and we lost plantations. Never bodies,'' said Lisemene Ferry Raphael, 46, standing across from her dead 12-year-old god daughter.

There are bodies on almost every other corner inside the town, where two rivers and the torrential rain of Ike swallowed houses and swept children and old women downstream, according to The Miami Herald, which has the only international reporter at the town along Route 1 on the road to the city Gonaives.

Franzt Samedi's 5-year-old adopted daughter, Tamesha Jean, was among the dead.

''I'm the one who she calls Papa. I'm the one who is responsible for her. If she were with me she would not have died,'' Samedi said.

Via / Citizen Orange