After an earthquake destroyed much of Haiti’s capital in 2010, the country passed a new building code. But rules have been rarely enforced, leaving many thousands of buildings vulnerable to the latest earthquake to strike the country.
LES CAYES, Haiti—Marie Lyvie François, a 65-year-old Haitian whose house was ripped through by, says she has learned the hard way about the importance of adding enough cement to concrete.
When she hired a local workman to build her home over a decade ago, they never bothered to get a construction permit and cut down on expensive materials like cement to save money. Now, her house is on the verge of collapse, forcing her and her two grandchildren onto the street. “There were rules we couldn’t follow because we just didn’t have the money,” she said, speaking to a reporter from under a plastic sheet near her destroyed home on Tuesday. Overhead, the sky darkened with the arrival of Tropical Storm Grace, whichand added to the misery of those left without shelter by the quake. “If I’d known about the consequences, I would not have chosen to build this way.”
Across southern Haiti, more than 60,759 buildings collapsed, according to the government, including churches, schools and countless homes. There are stretches of road along some towns where not a single building survived intact., in which almost a quarter of a million people were crushed to death under the rubble of collapsed buildings, many of the world’s top engineering experts descended on the Caribbean nation to help.
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