Meteo el Matthew ya es huracán en el caribe

[maka]

el balance de víctimas en Haití se ha agravado
unos 800 muertos
esperan ayuda
carreteras cortadas en el SW de Haití
escasez de agua potable
emergencia por brote de cólera
etc
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Hurricane Matthew: Haiti dead reach 800 as south awaits aid

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37588752

The UN has warned it could take days for the full impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti to emerge, as the death toll soars to more than 800.
The death toll has doubled, and may rise, as rescue teams gain access to southern areas cut off by the storm.
The World Food Programme's Carlos Veloso says some of the hard-hit towns can only be reached by air or sea.
Many of the deaths in Haiti were in the south-western coast, which suffered the full force of the hurricane this week.
Hurricane Matthew is currently battering the coastline of the US state of Florida but has been downgraded to a Category Two storm, with sustained wind speed dropping to 110mph (177km/h).
Category Five is the strongest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.

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Rescue efforts are under way to assess the destruction left in the wake of the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade.
Haiti's Civil Protection Agency on Friday doubled the death toll from the hurricane from 400 to more than 800.
A definitive number is taking time to obtain because of the intensity of the damage to remote areas that are inaccessible because of flood water.
At least one major town in the south - Jeremie - has been 80% destroyed, with aerial footage showing the scale of destruction with hundreds of flattened houses.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Information on the number of dead is starting to trickle in from remote areas Image copyright AFP Image caption The town of Jeremie was among the worst hit Image copyright Google, Reuters Three other towns in the south are reporting dozens of fatalities, according to Reuters news agency. The mayor of the village of Chantal told the news agency that 86 people had died and 20 more were missing.
Civil Protection Agency official Saint-Victor Jeune said his team had found another 82 bodies in the mountainous outskirts of Jeremie. But they were unable to register these with the Haitian authorities because of poor communications, he said speaking to Associated Press news agency.
The storm passed directly through the Tiburon peninsula - encompassing Haiti's entire southern coast - driving the sea inland and flattening homes with winds of up to 230km/h (145mph) and torrential rain.
'Next four or five days'

Government and UN officials estimate that some 350,000 people are in need of assistance.
"This is a situation changing all the time," the World Food Programme's Haiti director, Mr Veloso, said.
"I think that for the next four or five days, maybe only in five days, we will have a more clear picture of the impact and the death toll."
Non-governmental organisations say communication with the areas worst affected has been hampered by lack of phone coverage and downed power lines.
The US is sending its USS Mesa Verde navy ship to assist with rescue efforts, as well as nine military helicopters to help deliver food and water to the hardest-hit areas.
The Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal for $6.9m (£5.6m) "to provide medical, shelter, water and sanitation assistance to 50,000 people".
This comes amid concerns about a surge in cholera cases, with the sanitation system in Haiti already overwhelmed.
Haiti - one of the world's poorest countries - has never fully recovered from the earthquake that killed thousands of people in 2010 and a cholera epidemic that followed.

[coronadobx]

Estimados Cofrades ya con la tranquilidad de estar de nuevo en casa comparto con vosotros mis aprendizajes de Mathew.

Primero destacar el trabajo improvo de las autoridades y agencias Norteamericanas para minimizar el impacto del Huracán, es increíble como esta todo coordinado y cada organismo se centra en sus responsabilidades. Destacar a esos heroes que para mi son los Hurricane Hunters, pilotos de los que la vida de miles de personas depende. Como sabeis algo conozco el mundo aeronáutico y prensar que hay tripulaciones que vuelan de noche al ojo de un Huracan es sencillamente increíble.

Segundo, en este caso hemos tenido suerte, pero la madre naturaleza manda, si llega a hacer tierra el destrozo en el sur de Florida hubiera sido brutal

Tercero, como navegando, el tema de los huracanes es anticipación, es como el dicho de si piensas que hay que rizar ya vas tarde, pues lo mismo. Hay que hacer reservas de hoteles unos dias antes, no esperar al ultimo dia para repostar...en definitiva ir un paso por delante

Cuatro, los medios de comunicacion son pelin exagerados, contribuyen un poco al circo mediático, es gracioso ver reporteros contando lo duras que son las condiciones y ves que por detrás hay unas parejas paseando tranquilamente..... Asi mismo aqui en Florida, la gente en general son expertos en estos temas y no ves pánico ni miedo.

Quinto, nunca me he alegrado tanto de tener mi barco en una marina seca, algo que debería introducirse mas en España

Finalmente, dos reflexiones, la primera es que el comparativo con Haiti no es correcto. Yo conozco algo ese pais y aparte de la extrema probreza que sufren lo que mata a la gente es el agua no el viento. Es un pais donde se han destruido todos los bosques ya que utilizan la Madera como combustible y esto causa que el impacto de las riadas sea mayor. Nunca un pais ha sufrido mas desgracias que Haiti, compartiendo isla la Española con la Rep Dominicana

La segunda ese agradecer una vez mas a los Cofrades, vuestra preocupación e informacion, os puedo asegurar que me ha hecho más llevadero este trance.

Un saludo y gracias de nuevo. Coronadobx