Govnaives Needs to be Closed Down

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Gonaives should not be a city. Gonaives is a collection of concrete buildings, run-down shacks and plazas with dilapidated fountains -- lies in a flat river plain between the ocean and deforested mountains that run with mud even in light rains.

Hanna swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping vast amounts of water, blowing down fruit trees and ruining stores of food as it swamped tin-roofed houses and killing dozens of people.

Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 killed more than 2000 people in Gonaives.

It is very obvious to me that Gonaives should be closed down as a city and not allowing people to live there.

The only thing that should be there is the Port. The mountains are deforested causing mud slides with any small amount of rain. The government of Haiti/International Community should move people out of Gonaives and financially assist them with living somewhere else. Then, they should plant trees on the mountain side and place a barrier at the foothill of the mountains.

Otherwise, thousands of people will die in Gonaives.

Hanna was a category 1. Can you imagine if a Category 5 hits Haiti?

100,000 people will die, easily.

Greg Peters, September 5 2008, 6:10 AM

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