GEO Haiti 2010
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<strong>GEO</strong> HAITI • <strong>2010</strong><br />
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Table 30: Historical Balance Sheet of Floods in <strong>Haiti</strong><br />
Date Place Damages<br />
November 14, 1963 Grande Rivière du Nord Almost 500 victims<br />
May 20, 1972 Cayes Region 20 missing and considerable physical losses<br />
June 10, 1984<br />
Port-de-Paix<br />
June 1, 1986 Cayes Region 20,000 hectares affected, several<br />
thousand homes damaged<br />
October 23, 1986 Gonâve Island 31 dead, 906 homeless, over 380<br />
homes destroyed or damaged<br />
April 27, 1987 Port-de-Paix 131 families affected<br />
May 8, 1987<br />
Thiotte in the Southeast,<br />
Delmas and Caradeux<br />
in Port-au-Prince<br />
Thiotte: 3 killed and hundreds homeless.<br />
Areas of Delmas and Caradeux in Portau-Prince:<br />
21 families affected<br />
January 27, 1988 Northwest According to the Pan American Health<br />
Organisation (PAHO), over 15 lives were<br />
lost and thousands of persons lost<br />
their homes, farms and livestock<br />
June 20, 1988 Estere in Artibonite 500 families affected<br />
October 8, 1988 Leogane Plain 40 families affected<br />
February 23, 1989 Gonâve Island 4,945 families affected, 1,527 homes<br />
destroyed and 1,640 damaged.<br />
May 24-27, 2002<br />
May 23-24, 2004<br />
October 4, 2005<br />
October 25, 2005<br />
South Peninsula, town of<br />
Camp Perrin and areas<br />
of Azile and Anse-à-Veau<br />
were the most affected.<br />
Southeast <strong>Haiti</strong>, Mapou<br />
Belle-Anse, Bodary and<br />
Fonds-Verrettes.<br />
Various regions including<br />
Petion-Ville and Grand Goave<br />
in the West Province.<br />
Several regions in the<br />
Northwest including the<br />
communities of Port-de-Paix,<br />
Bassin-Bleu, Anse-à-Foleur<br />
and Saint-Louis du Nord.<br />
31 dead, 14 missing and over 7,000<br />
victims in the South Province according<br />
to the Office of Civil Defence, as quoted<br />
by <strong>Haiti</strong>-Press Network, June 5, 2002<br />
1,232 dead, 1,443 missing and 31,130 victims<br />
according to the latest figures published by<br />
<strong>Haiti</strong>an civil defence on June 8, 2004. The<br />
hardest hit areas are: Mapou Belle-Anse with<br />
432 people dead, Bodary with 350 people dead<br />
and Fonds-Verrettes with 237 people dead.<br />
All three areas are located in the Southeast<br />
Province. The tragedy of this disaster compelled<br />
the Boniface/Latortue interim government to<br />
proclaim May 28 a national day of mourning.<br />
The floods caused significant losses. The<br />
government provided no figures on this disaster.<br />
Floods caused by torrential rains in several<br />
Northwestern regions. Livestock and crops<br />
were swept away and one person was killed.