From the Ground in Haiti: Day Four Cont.

Received this afternoon:

i'm dashing around all day. mostly at the hospital, putting out fires. today, after the tremor/wake-up call, the hospital removed all patients. its so hot out here and its terrible enough already.i was asked to organize complete campus assessment only with Corps of engineers structural guys. was able to pull army contacts and make it happen, everyone is now getting back into the wards.

also working on restoring electrical power. a huge mess, so coord with all types, went out to cite sole to borrow batteries from an equipment company, finally got the thing started only to have no one to help us complete the work. used same army contacts, got electricians here who worked with local haiti guys we also brought in to get things started. hope to have power by 5pm

it rained hard last night. so bad, haitians are homeless or fear sleeping inside, if they have shelter, its sheets strung up by ropes. so can it get worse for them? and then the tremor this morning, i think a 6.1, really shook people up, no pun intended.

but we keep going, jim and i working hand in hand, we have 82nd airborn troops stationed here who are awesome, its absolute choas.

have a coord mtg tonight, i have been lynch pin between UN, US Army and Corps of Eng to organize assessments. still have decent hospitals with pats outside since day 1 that need assessment.