Just from a quick glance, it looks like many of the smaller very humble structures away from the city center (a.k.a. slums) survived mostly intact. I guess that’s to be expected. A single level tin roofed or tarpaper shack is much less likely to collapse than poorly designed and built heavy concrete or brick homes, offices, hospitals, and other structures.

The really sad part of all this is that it appears Haiti may have lost their most educated and hardest working folks in disproportionate numbers.

If you were an office worker, factory worker, doctor, or for that matter what passes for a middle class housewife, you were much more likely to be inside one of those concrete buildings that collapsed than a member of the unemployed underclass who may have been outdoors when the quake struck, and whose shanties were less likely collapse to begin with.

Millions of dollars for aid, medicine and rebuilding! Who am I kidding; this will cost US taxpayers tens or hundreds of billions before it’s over.

Zero for relocation to the United States!

Let’s help the Haitians where they are instead of adding several million more consumers of social services to U.S. rolls. I already have far more competition than I would like in the unemployment line.