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Annoule covered about 35 miles in the darkness, with long spreads of silence and bursts of cries for help. As he approached his sister-in-law's house in the Port-au-Prince district of Carrefour Feuilles, each block no longer resembled what he remembered. And the four-story apartment building where he had left his daughter was flattened. "When I got to the house, I saw my sister-in law with her arms stretched out, and I knew," says Annoule, fixing his eyes on the ground. (See TIME's coverage of the earthquake in Haiti...
...that began looking for the remains of American victims of the quake in the beginning of March. The team has since recovered the remains of 52 Americans, but not Lodz's. This week, about 2½ months after the quake, it gave up. (See pictures of the destruction in Port-au-Prince...
Looney says there was often no way of distinguishing Americans from Haitians, so each body would be dug up at a site. "The number of Haitians far exceeded the number of Americans recovered," says Looney. "We would hand them over to the Port-au-Prince morgue" - a morgue he described as a "hellhole" with hundreds of bodies stacked on top of one another. "They didn't even use rubber gloves to handle the bodies until we gave them some," says Looney. The Americans found the bodies they had turned over to the Haitians lying in the same overcrowded morgue weeks...
Severe rains have already hit Port-au-Prince, foreshadowing the coming rainy season. St. Leger says her compact shanty gets flooded with water up to her ankles and that one night she was forced to crouch in higher but smaller shelter all night until the rain stopped the next morning. Sloped land and sewage drains clogged with trash cause most of the flooding during heavy rains, creating an unsanitary environment that elevates concerns about the spread of disease...
...jobs, many of the residents say they will not leave their tent cities. Markendie Paul, 26, leans against the aluminum siding of a shanty with a group of friends. This is how he spends his day, just joking around with friends, but he says he would love to leave Port-au-Prince if he could find work. "Look, we are grown men with beards, and I'm asking my mother for a little money to buy coffee in the morning," says Paul. "I would like to find work to be the one to help my family...