Another interesting week. Lots of meetings. Wednesday we met with leadership of Samaritan's Purse to discuss the future. On Thursday we visited with with Bill Neush, his father and wife Herman and Janet Neush and Janet's son Scott...all from Texas. It was a joy to show them the houses that they had been a part of building in the village of TiTanyen. We found out Thursday afternoon that we needed to make a meeting with Convention Baptiste' d Haiti in Cap Haitian. We took an in country flight there on Friday morning. Had a very productive meeting with CBH and we flew out at 3 pm coming back to Port-au-Prince. About 10 minutes before landing in PAP the pilot notified the passengers that there was bad weather in PAP and we were returning to Cap Haitian. After we landed the flight crew told us it would be 11:45 am Saturday morning. We had met a French business man on the plane so we suggested maybe we could rent a car and drive down together. ( this is a 6 hr drive...first 3 hours over very rough roads and by now it is 5pm) . After about 30 minutes of dealing with a rental car agency they decided that they would only let us rent if we used a chauffeur and the chauffeur couldn't leave until Sat. morning at 6 am. We could however pay a $1,600 deposit and they would let us take a car. We said "thanks but no thanks". There are two main commuter flights in Haiti...Tortug Air and Salsa...Tortug being the largest. We flew on Salsa. As we return to the airlines counter to find out some hotel phone numbers they told us that a Tortug flight had just arrived from Nassau and the pilot had agreed to take us on to PAP because the bad weather had cleared out. We said "when". The lady said "NOW". We gladly paid another one way ticket to arrive back in PAP at 5:30 pm. When we landed we found a lot of damage from the 60 mph winds and rain which produced a lot of flooding. We arrived back at the compound at 6:45pm after driving around a lot of downed trees, power lines and billboards.
Most of the town was blacked out and many areas of the tents cities were heavily damaged. The last we heard 5 people lost their lives. We thank God for His protection. We never take this for granted.
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