And The Work Goes On...
The past few weeks have brought some rain to our area, a brief trip to the US for me and continued construction progress. Here are some...
Floods, Phones and “Deputized” Engineers
After our rain-delayed road trip, described in my last blog, we found that the same rains that caused us delay at Riviere Glace also...
Another Road Story
Those of you who read this blog regularly know that our road trips back and forth to Port-au-Prince are often the fodder for interesting...
Construction Update ~ Week of May 23, 2011
Rainy season has started and it has been raining almost every day for the past two weeks. All the benches outside our clinic were full...
Road Trips and Politics
As many of you may know, we are in the middle of a 3-year project to improve and pave the road between Cayes, on the southern coast and...
Hurricane Aftermath
We were able to drive up to our clinic on Tuesday this week, finding the road very slippery and gutted out, but passable. We had to put...
The storm is passing!
As I write this blog (2:00pm CT on Friday, November 5th), the worst of Hurricane Tomas seems to be over. Warnings about the storm had...
Waiting for the next storm!
Yesterday turned out to be a busy day for us. It rained during the night and was overcast in the morning, so we were undecided about...
More Storms, More Rain, and Flooding
We’ve had another 24 hours of high winds and drenching rains as Haiti felt the effects of nearby tropical storm Hannah. The rain started...
Hurricane Update
We’re presently reaching 48 hours of constant rainfall here in Jeremie, as a result of tropical storm Gustave. We were actually up at our...