island cassie

Thanks everyone for your good wishes - we were lucky this time but as we sit on the junction of 3 tectonic plates that are sliding under the North American plate - we are in a similar situation to California! The quake came through here as a 4 as we are on the other side of this big island, and it just set the lights swinging and the swimming pool slopping over, the dogs didn't even get off their beds and I thought they should have been our early warning system. Dumb mutts! Our house is built on a raft so that it should slide with the motion and not break.

We spent the day collecting clothing and medicines for a Haitian doctor to take back to Port-au-Prince tomorrow - hopefully he can get through as the roads and bridges are in a bad way and it is a long trip from here. In the face of a disaster of this scale we feel so helpless!