Hurricane Matthew has been the most destructive hurricane, therefore being classified as a very deadly category 5 cyclone. Due to Matthew being the most destructive it caused the death toll to rise very high up to the hundreds and thousands in Jérémie and surrounding, while in other remote areas there is not an accurate death toll yet. Hurricane Matthew had been just as bad as the destruction it left behind. The Haitian government is to blame for Haiti being unprepared for the destruction of Hurricane Matthew because they did not save enough money for this specific cause, did not save enough food, and did not make enough shelters for this purpose. Many people need assistance with money; due to the fact about 80% of Haitian people live in
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Since there was a lack of shelter, in one shelter there was up to about 140 people overcrowded. In total there was 15,263 people placed in152 shelters that they already had. Due to the fact of the shelters being over packed many people volunteer at their nearest shelters to help out. There was a large scale evacuation and there were over about 10,000 people were left homeless. Many families live in metal sheet roofs and were overall difficult to go home. For the people who were left homeless it was such a huge concern for them that many people needed a permanent housing to stay: many families having to live in sheet metal roofs. For the aftermath of Matthew it affected Haiti so much that it affected the standing shelters that the people had to evacuate them as well. All the destruction in the many small towns and cities were considered a wasteland. Many houses had been crushed by trees, left under water, rooftops torn away, houses flooded, flattened, and ripped into shreds due to the wind and flooding causing over 500,000 people needing shelter. Dr. Joanna Cherry a medical offer stated that “We can tell you when our teams arrived, they compared the area to that of a bomb blast”, “There’s no leaves left on any trees. There’s very little foliage still standing. There’s no shade in any areas. Multiple houses had their roofs taken off during the storm” (1). Mayor Jean Gabriel Fortune stated that towns were very affected and that there is no way of the structures can survive harsh winds like
Since there was a lack of shelter, in one shelter there was up to about 140 people overcrowded. In total there was 15,263 people placed in152 shelters that they already had. Due to the fact of the shelters being over packed many people volunteer at their nearest shelters to help out. There was a large scale evacuation and there were over about 10,000 people were left homeless. Many families live in metal sheet roofs and were overall difficult to go home. For the people who were left homeless it was such a huge concern for them that many people needed a permanent housing to stay: many families having to live in sheet metal roofs. For the aftermath of Matthew it affected Haiti so much that it affected the standing shelters that the people had to evacuate them as well. All the destruction in the many small towns and cities were considered a wasteland. Many houses had been crushed by trees, left under water, rooftops torn away, houses flooded, flattened, and ripped into shreds due to the wind and flooding causing over 500,000 people needing shelter. Dr. Joanna Cherry a medical offer stated that “We can tell you when our teams arrived, they compared the area to that of a bomb blast”, “There’s no leaves left on any trees. There’s very little foliage still standing. There’s no shade in any areas. Multiple houses had their roofs taken off during the storm” (1). Mayor Jean Gabriel Fortune stated that towns were very affected and that there is no way of the structures can survive harsh winds like