Agent Immobilier Louicius : After Hurricane Matthew, Devastation in Southern Haiti

mercredi 12 octobre 2016

After Hurricane Matthew, Devastation in Southern Haiti

By THE NEW YORK TIMESOCT. 7, 2016

Jérémie, Haiti, where 80 percent of buildings were destroyed by the storm.CreditCarlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

Hurricane Matthew left a tableau of devastation across southern Haiti, destroying houses, leaving villages under several feet of water and killing more than 800 people, according to a count by Reuters. Photographers captured disturbing images of the aftermath.

One of the hundreds who died in the storm. CreditOrlando Barria/European Pressphoto Agency

Many of the worst-hit areas in the south were completely cut off from rescue workers by severed phone lines and collapsed bridges until Thursday.

Men in Petit-Goâve searched for a place to cross La Digue river after the only bridge linking to the south collapsed.

A group carrying a coffin tried to cross La Digue river on Wednesday. CreditOrlando Barria/European Pressphoto Agency

Buildings were ravaged, including the Ste.-Anne church in Les Cayes, below. “That many people died because they never believed what the authorities told them when they said they had to evacuate,” said Jean Senozier Despreux, who lives and works in Les Cayes and weathered the storm there. “They resisted it.”

Saint Anne church in Camp Perrin, a district of Les Cayes. CreditDieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press

Mr. Despreux said the death toll was not surprising. “We knew we would continue find people under the rubble,” he said. “It was so intense there was no way out.”

In Jérémie, burials had already begun on Thursday.

Workers burying two bodies in Jérémie on Thursday. CreditCarlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

In Les Cayes, across the peninsula from Jérémie, people lost their homes, livestock and possessions. A street vendor, below, sold food on the side of a road after the storm.