Martin Poitevien said goodbye to her parents at a Miami airport on friday just before their departure home to Haiti. Only 4 days after her parents visited her and her daughters in Florida a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Martin recieved a phone call from her brother telling her that her father was killed due to their fallen home. A few days later her mothers body was found as well. Her parents were very good people and were visiting and spending lots of quality time with their granddaughters. Martin is a cancer researcher and moved to Florida from Canada after her husband was murdered. She has not broken the news to her daughters yet because she does not know how to. Their is a small Haiti community in Miami and they held a church service tonight at 7 p.m. The priest is doing all he can to listen to stories and comfort those who lost somone in the horrible earthquake.
I believe this story is incredibly sad. It's never good to hear about loved ones losing each other, and especially about a major natural disaster. I think that researchers and scientists need to find a way to detect earth quakes sooner so that warning can be released and potentially saves the lives of many citizens around the globe. It's wierd to think that if Martin's parents had come just four days later then they would not have been in Haiti for the earth quake. I can't imagine what is going through her head. She has lost almost everyone she cares for in her life. I just believe that if there were some way to detect sooner the shock waves then perhaps hundreds of thousands of people could have been saved.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.death.profile/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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