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Friday, January 22, 2010

International Text Message from Haiti

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:43 PM

Nathan Hamlin Bean is in Haiti right now recently sent us his impressions about what he's seen so far:

I’m riding in the back of a truck, going way too fast around a hairpin turn with two Haitian guys singing “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley. We arrive in Port-au-Prince—people everywhere, frenzy, chaos. Haiti was poor and crazy before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked the capital. Our singing dies down at the sobering sight. I see my first one: a building the size of Broadway Grill completely leveled.

Seventy-two hours earlier I was serving mac and cheese to one of the countless suits who file through the Icon Grill downtown. I was in a haze that day at work because I had been watching everyone’s favorite homo anchorman Anderson Cooper reporting from Haiti. They said it was bad and that it would get much worse before it got better. The awful tweets and images poured in, and I felt moved to action...

How did this Icon Grill waiter end up in Port-au-Prince? What has he been doing there since he arrived? How can you help?

His piece continues HERE.