Word: arbuthnott
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...mere week had passed since Arbuthnott's return to the United States...
...cataclysmic earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince at 4:53 p.m. on Jan. 12 unleashed devastation in a country that was already among the poorest in the hemisphere. It came without warning, Arbuthnott said...
...thinks of earthquakes in the Caribbean. It's not like it was a hurricane—it's not hurricane season. It was like someone told me a volcano erupted in the middle of the island," said Arbuthnott, whose mother, on a bus from New York, had not yet heard the news at the time of his television screening...
Watching CNN on that cold night was frustrating, Arbuthnott said, because there were no visuals, no pictures to help him envision the destruction in discussion on television. He recalled the shanty cement homes built on hillsides—and he feared the worst...
...hope it awakens Americans and the world to a fixable problem,” Arbuthnott said. “The people there are very strong-willed, but you can’t just provide aid and walk away...