The Haitian Presidential Palace - before/after

[Kablooie]

[krispos42]

1. Jeez,it pancaked

Imagine if this happened to DC and the White House...


What a tragedy. :-(

[smalll]

2. Clearly, a controlled demolition --

someone bust out the chickenwire!

;)

[IScreamSundays]

4. whatever nt

[midnight]

3. It sure does look like it pancaked.....

[SergeStorms]

5. As bad as that is........

it's not Presidential Palaces that should be of the utmost concern here. The homes of the rich and connected can all fall down, as far as I'm concerned. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of normal, little people whose lives have been completely devastated by this earthquake. The rich and connected will have the best of everything while their homes are repaired. Not so for the little guys. They'll have to scrape and scrounge just to stay alive.

I'm not feeling very charitable toward the "haves" in Haiti. It's the "have nots" that will get any money I send down there.

I know you weren't trying to single out the rich. You were just trying to relate a before and after sense of the destruction. It's just that I don't give a rat's ass about the rich in Haiti who live so well while their countrymen live in disease and squalor. Now we can add this earthquake to their laundry list of social devastation. :cry:

[Kablooie]

7. But it illustratrates clearly how strong the earthquake was.

[Dappleganger]

10. One bad thing about the 'haves' not having a place to stay...

many of them are the sole source of employment for Haiteens to earn a living, so that's not good at all.

[Locut0s]

6. In a country like Haiti the shocking thing should be the BEFORE pic NOT the after...

Haiti has long been one of the worlds poorest most lawless countries. Nothing spells wealth gap like the Before pic there. People living in abject poverty in shanty towns, doing horrendous things just to eek out a living and you have that monstrosity.

[Dappleganger]

9. +1

[Dappleganger]

8. Now it finally looks like the rest of the neighborhood.

Yes, I've spent time there and it never ceased to amaze the disparity between the wealthy and the poor. I'm sorry the president (who was NOT in charge when I was there, that was Baby Doc) doesn't have a place to stay however. If you're able to see a zoomed out picture of before the quake you'll quickly see what is meant by that.