Earthquake in Haiti -- Tsunami Watch For the Bahamas

I was preparing dinner last night at around 6:00 PM and I received a phone call at my Paradise Island home. It was our friend Monika. She told me to turn to channel 32 which is CNN in the Bahamas. There was a tsunami watch issued for the Bahamas. It was a chiller.

I turned on CNN, and sure enough it was true. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake had struck Haiti. It will be horrors and devastation. The loss of life, I fear will be horrendous. It is a huge catastrophe. Haiti is the bad luck story of North America.

There are many Haitians in the Bahamas. They send remittances back home from the mere pittances that they are paid here. Just yesterday I gave away a whole pile of shirts to our Haitian gardener who always has a use for them.

I was personally relieved that the tsunami watch was lifted shortly after it was issued. The Lovely One is still back home in Canada, and she wanted me to leave the country immediately after it was issued. Between the hurricanes, the earthquakes, and possible tsunamis, somehow Canada seems a lot more stable than the Caribbean.