Heavy rains swamp Haiti’s homeless camps

[Judi Lynn]

Heavy rains swamp Haiti’s homeless camps
Deluge terrifies, adds to post-quake misery for thousands of people
updated 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands.

The overnight downpour sent water coursing down the slopes of a former golf course that now serves as a temporary home for about 45,000 people.

There were no reports of deaths in the camp, a town-size maze of blue, orange and silver tarps located behind the country club used by the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne as a forward-operating base.

But the deluge terrified families who just two months ago survived the collapse of their homes in the magnitude-7 earthquake and are now struggling to make do in tent-and-tarp camps that officials have repeatedly said must be relocated.

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