{"id":218777,"date":"2010-01-22T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/01\/22\/haiti-petit-goaves-big-problems\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:41:28","slug":"haiti-petit-goave%e2%80%99s-big-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218777","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: Petit-Goave\u2019s Big Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1\/22\/2010<\/p>\n<p>Petit-Goave&#8217;s Big Problems<\/p>\n<p>It took two and a half hours to drive just 40 miles from Port-au-Prince to Petit-Goave. The main road there is buckled and cracked wide open in some parts, littered with rocks and boulders in other stretches. The ride was so bumpy, I got nauseous and had to lay down. It quickly became clear why aid is so slow in getting to the bayside town.<\/p>\n<p>Petit-Goave was heavily damaged in the first earthquake and then was the epicenter of the second one that hit Wednesday. However, the town and others like it west of Port-au-Prince have yet to see deliveries of food and water or help in retrieving their more than one thousand dead from beneath piles of cinderblocks and mangled furniture.<\/p>\n<p>There are Red Cross workers on the scene, helping with medical needs. But there were only a handful of them for the town of 170,000. The Deputy Mayor of Petit-Goave says aid agencies are focusing too much on Port-au-Prince and need to start paying attention to hard hit areas in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Petit-Goave could get worse before it gets better. Haiti&#8217;s rainy season is coming. Locals fear the structures left standing won&#8217;t be able to withstand the downpour.And the people too afraid to sleep in them, still don&#8217;t have proper tents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/22\/2010 Petit-Goave&#8217;s Big Problems It took two and a half hours to drive just 40 miles from Port-au-Prince to Petit-Goave. The main road there is buckled and cracked wide open in some parts, littered with rocks and boulders in other stretches. The ride was so bumpy, I got nauseous and had to lay down. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}