Hurricane Matthew Death Toll Passes 800 in Haiti: Here's How You Can Help Joseph Guyler Delva and Scott Malone - Reuters
go to original October 8, 2016

Outcry from Haiti: We Have Nothing Left (Reuters/The News)

Hurricane Matthew killed more than 800 people and left tens of thousands homeless in its rampage through Haiti earlier this week before it lashed Florida on Friday with howling winds and rumbled northward up the U.S. Atlantic coast.

The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, surged to at least 842 on Friday as information trickled in from remote areas previously cut off by the storm, according to a Reuters tally of death tolls given by officials.

Matthew, the fiercest cyclone to affect the United States since Superstorm Sandy hit the Northeast four years ago, triggered mass evacuations along the coast from Florida through Georgia and into South Carolina and North Carolina.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged people not to be complacent and to heed safety instructions in the face of a storm that could be the most severe to strike northeast Florida in more than 100 years.

“I just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane, that the potential for storm surge, loss of life and severe property damage exists," Obama told reporters after a briefing with emergency management officials.

Matthew smashed through Haiti's western peninsula on Tuesday with 145 mph (233 kph) winds and torrential rain. Some 61,500 people were in shelters, officials said, after the storm pushed the sea into fragile coastal villages, some of which were only now being contacted.

The watchdog Charity Navigator has created one place where donors can go. Here are the charities:

Hope for Haiti

Haitian Health Foundation

Save the Children

Read the rest at Reuters

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The Stroop test, measures how heroic you are. The faster and more accurately you can say the color of the ink – instead of the written color name – the more likely you can stop doing one action, such as panicking, to focus on another - helping others.

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