April 15, 2010 – 5:49am – Thursday (Haiti Time)- Ruuska Village – Bon Repos, Haiti – Report submitted by Joe Hurston (Air Mobile Joe)

Last night it rained in Haiti! Heavy, saturating rain. It must have poured for 2 straight hours. This particular cell was quite large and covered much of Port-Au-Prince and Bon Repos. As it rained, our team was safe and dry. I do not have the exact rainfall amount, but it had to be 3″-5″. Having gotten up very early yesterday and flying to Haiti, by the time the rains came, I had found a quiet, safe, dry spot in our village and was drifting in and out of sleep. I could not help but realize how many hundreds of thousands of Haitians are huddled under tarps with mud everywhere. As we drove from the airport yesterday, a number of “familiar” tent cities were gone….completely gone as if they had never been there. These were large tent cities with thousands of people. We hope to do some searching and find out where some of these folks have been relocated. We hope and pray their “new home” has the basics, sanitation, clean water etc. 

In the meantime, Barbara has selected several locations for Voyagers. Garrett and I will be re-organizing our Voyager Repair Depot today and getting as many Voyagers ready for deployment as possible. Thanks for your love and prayer! We really need your prayer so that we may be effective and helpful to so many that are suffering.

God Bless!

Air Mobile Joe