Hurricane Update
Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 12:40AM
While the meteorologists are hard at work tracking the Tropical Storm Isaac, Ted has been running around to get things together and get prepared for it's arrival in Haiti late Friday night.
Please keep him in your prayers as he gathers staples, fills gas tanks, contacts each of our partner churches to spread the warning and assess needs, helping our friends at Diakonos by moving the kids to safety...and so on!
Please pray for the entire area over the next few days. There are still 300,000 people in tents that cannot withstand the winds. The projected rainfall is supposed to be anywhere from 8-20 inches. 1-2 inches is all that it usually takes to pretty much shut the city down.
And you know the rest. Haiti just isn't a place that needs any more destruction.
On top of the situation is the fact that they really don't usually know when this type of storm is coming, so they do nothing to prepare. Little will be boarded up or tied down. Virtually NO one in the greater population will set up sand bags in anticipation of flooding or tape windows or buy extra food and water. The communication infrastructure just isn't in place for that.
Keep our Haitian co-worker, Ron in your prayers, as he travels back on Friday from the US, and for me, Rebecca, here in Florida at the moment, not much help but also watching the storm tracker for Monday.
http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker