As soon as we hit port-side the cranes fired into life, the trucks queuing up as though impatient to make up the delayed time.
It was January 2010 in Haiti, ten days after the devastating earthquake had hit Port-au-Prince.
If one were to hit Port-au-Prince, the death toll can only be guessed at.
Despite the intervention of two United States Navy Catalinas sent to their aid, a bomb hit Port Fairy on her starboard quarter, starting a fire next to the magazine and disabling her steering.
"Even if they are rare events, they are high impact events". Matthew Hornbach, a research associate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, said the study helps explain what was observed during the magnitude 7 or 8 earthquake that hit Port Royal in Jamaica in 1692, destroying the hub of British colonial interests in the Caribbean.
Danger of floods and mudslides The hurricane has not directly hit Port-au-Prince, where families displaced by the earthquake and living in tent camps would be highly exposed and endangered.
As early as last 13 January, one day after the quake hit Port-au-Prince and other densely populated areas, Shakira was urging fans to donate to UNICEF to help the survivors.
After hitting ports at Eriksson's likely birthplace, Iceland, and then Greenland (where he was blown off course), the crew sailed the Draken for Newfoundland where the explorer made landfall.
1 M. Barley (Rivermeade, Romsey Road, Ower, Hampshire SO51 6AF): Sailor lengthens stay as hor/rible wind hits port. 2 R. C. Teuton (54 Court Road, Frampton Cotterell BS36 2DN): Summer wine's austere character appeared in the l/ot I chose (ref. Nora Batty in 'Last of the Summer Wine').
To make ends meet, the Bat'kivshchyna turns into a gift shop when it hits port, doing a brisk business in "McLenin" T-shirts, fake fur hats, hand-lacquered refrigerator magnets, and nesting wooden dolls of President Clinton containing Monica Lewinsky containing Paula Jones containing the first lady containing a cigar.
