1. Interactive before and after satellite imagery from the New York Times.
2. “Money is worth nothing right now; water is the currency,” one foreign aid worker told Reuters. (Via MR)
3. Tyler Cowen shares his perspective on Haiti and its culture from his six visits.
Despite oppressive poverty (other than India, I've never seen anything comparable), there's simply a remarkable feeling there and most visitors to Haiti end up sharing this understanding with other Haitiphiles. I've long wished I could explain this.
4. This seems to be a recurring theme with natural disasters: Relief Gridlock:
The massive medical aid response to Haiti has got United Nations traffic managers worried that medical do-gooders will be creating logjams. [...]
Most of the hospitals in Port-au-Prince have been smashed beyond use. And there are tens of thousands of earthquake victims who urgently need surgery and hospital care, so it's natural that governments and humanitarian agencies around the world are rushing sophisticated pre-packaged field hospitals into the earthquake zone.
But the United Nations today said: Please stop.
5. At risk of sounding callous, I wonder how the amount of money and other resources poured into Haiti the past few days compares to the past few decades.
6. Dustin has collected on his blog some maps and infographics relating to the disaster.
7. NASA Earth Observatory high-resolution satellite image:
This regional view of Port-Au-Prince, from January 15, 2010, shows the densely developed urban area and the limited number of transportation hubs available for bringing aid into the earthquake-hit nation.
