In Haiti, at least ninety people have been killed in Tropical Storm Hanna. Most of the dead came in Gonaives. The town lost around 3,000 people when a storm caused massive flooding in September 2004.

Gonaives Resident: “The whole city right now is under the water. And all those houses, even the people that got on top of houses, even on the top, the water right now at knee-level. And in all, there are more people die than four years ago. And nothing was done to prevent the same problem from happening again.”

The death toll from three weeks of storms in Haiti is now close to 200. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. It’s especially vulnerable to flooding, because most of its trees have been cut down to make charcoal that is in turn used for fuel.