Sunday, August 26, 2012

Tropical Storm Ivan; Julia's email

Here is an email I got from Julia.

"Well yes, we are all ok... still a little tired from the loss of sleep FRi. night but doing just fine. Our yard however , I fear has not fared so well, branches and trees strewn all over and the power line snapped too. We are very fortunate though compared to the people all around. In fact I feel guilty that we are so spoiled . So many people have lost house ro
ofs here . In Pays Pourri, the people I fear are thinking life is hopeless. There is a count of 5 people dead and many, many houses are lost. Plus that alot of people lost all the animals and gardens so their livelihood is gone. Eralus is very, very burdened about it all.
" We had an interesting time going around town checking out all the water pouring down from the mountain road. The yard by the Catholic church was like a raging river and of course so was the NanPlezi road! Later we went around checking on our friends to make sure they were safe and sound. Seems like when we got to your house to check on Miss Ermithe's family they were all sleeping. We brought them some extra blankets later so they could stay warm- the breeze is so chilly". (Renald opened our house up to Nurse Ermite and her family since their roof blew off. Our house is empty since we are in the states for a few months - Mike)
"We had a quiet day today with the the whole crew over for lunch and we enjoyed soup and bread rolls . It feels just like after a good snow storm in Canada!!
We shall see what tomorrow holds. I've heard that there is bridges out in the Dominican so Dr. Alexis couldn't get over to the capitol .I don't know if that means Dr. Cedeno won't be coming either. Aaron said something about doc telling him he could just work tomorrow then. We shall see!

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