Rains hit Haiti, flooding refugee camp

Terra Daily via AFP: Heavy rains lashed Haiti Friday flooding one of the capital's largest refugee camps, triggering mud slides in the south, and leaving one person dead, local media and civil defense officials said. A makeshift camp for the homeless set up following the January quake which ravaged Port-au-Prince was already swamped after Hurricane Tomas began dumping rains over the country late Thursday.

The tent city near the ruined presidential palace, home to thousands of dispossessed, was already swimming in several inches (centimeters) of water, radio Vision 2000 said. "The wind has not yet picked up, but the rains are falling harder and harder in Port-au-Prince," aid worker Marianna Franco, from the non-governmental organization ACTED told AFP.

One person was killed late Thursday when he tried to cross a swollen river by car, Interior Minister Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime said. Tomas is forecast to bring five to 10 inches (12 to 25 centimeters) of rain to much of Haiti, with isolated areas being drenched with 15 inches (38 centimeters), US weather experts said….

Hurricane Tomas on October 30