Cholera and Hurricanes

This has already been a terrible year for Haiti. The earthquake killed over 200,000 people, and many hundreds of thousands more were left homeless and without food or income. Then a couple of weeks ago cholera was discovered in the north, which is slowly spreading, though not as fast as had been feared. But so far there have been over 300 deaths and nearly 5000 people sick. Now a category 3 hurricane is forecast to hit Port-au-Prince directly on Friday afternoon... It really will be devastating if that turns out to be the case. There are hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps under tarpaulin which they will lose in the high winds, as well as on mountainsides which if there are landslides will result in more deaths. How can one country suffer so much in such a short space of time? It is hard to know what to say in these situations. We continue to hope and pray for better things, but instead it seems to just get worse. But we must continue to hope and pray... This would be a good time for their forecasting to be really wrong!