March 22, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): In Haiti, one of the most torrential rains ever since the catastrophic January 12 earthquake inundated the dispossessed camps on Friday. These rainfalls have pushed the ear-piercing dwellers into eddies of water. The latrines are spilling over and the consequence is the creation of thousands of fearful inhabitants.

The overnight deluge transported water down the slopes of a previous golf course that now serves the role of an impermanent abode for about 45,000 individuals. There was no intelligence of human expirations in the camp.

But the frightened family units, who only two months ago endured the disintegration of their abodes in the mammoth earthquake, are now fighting to manage in tent-and-tarp camps that the governmental and humanitarian representatives have, over and over again, emphasized must be put somewhere else.

Aid personnel have stated that the people were brushed away shouting into eddies of water and the flows razed to the ground the tents that an Israeli humanitarian grouping was utilizing to educate the Haitian children of schools.

Jim Wilson of the humanitarian assemblage, Praecipio, came down from his own refuge up the hill when he listened to the screeching. He uttered that he saw many horror-struck and terrified individuals who were sobbing relentlessly.

After the sun ascended on Friday, the population utilized sticks and their uncovered hands to excavate drainage ditches around their tarps and slums. Marie Elba Sylvie could not make her mind up whether it was worth patching up the harm done to her lean-to of scrap wood and plastic.

It seems as if the heavy rains will haunt Haiti for some time in the future as well.