"God grabbed me and put me outside and I am alive."

My sister, Anna, is posting messages from friends and former co-workers in Haiti. She lived in the country in the late 1990s, and worked for RNDDH, a Haitian human-rights organization. Furthermore, she studied land change and use in a rural watershed as part of her doctoral dissertation, and continues to travel to the country for geography-related research.

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The Bob Corbett Haiti listserve warns that it is “a very active place...this is not a list for the faint-hearted and there is no digest version.”

It is, however, a preeminient source of current information about Haiti, in English, and the last 50 hours have lived up to its disclaimer.

Gleaned from the list...

Richard Morse, proprietor of the famous Hotel Oloffson and founder of the band, RAM, is tweeting.

Conversely, according to a woman at CHF International, an aid organization out of Maryland, President Preval and other leadership have little or no access to phones, as of 2 p.m. Thursday. “We just got off the phone with the Haitian Ambassador to the UN, and they are in an urgent need of 5 satellite phones for the President, Prime Minster, Minister for the Interior the Chief of Police and the Haitian Ambassador to the UN. The communication is severely limited and their ability to talk to each other as well as the US and other coordinating agencies is compromised,” she reports.

Someone at the UN base writes that,

AAWSM, observed

I am in the habit of trawling for stories; when my friend said "salmon" and "collective" and "Ann Arbor", I knew it was a keeper.

Wild Salmon Minyan

Now what to do about that salmon fillet in my freezer...