My first blog post!

Here we are in 2014! I don't really know what the widely accepted definition of a blog is, but to me it is a public diary, sorta like Facebook but you actually have to click on the post to read it.

Today is the eve of the 4 year anniversary since the terrible devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010.  I have no words to describe that day and how I feel. The only thing that really compares is 9/11.

You don't even see it coming then WHAM! A brick wall of every single emotion hits you so hard you don't feel anything. Fear, shock, sadness, happiness, guilt, trauma. The only difference is 9/11 was manmade, the Haiti earthquake was mother nature.

But was it mother nature? I don't know for sure if the earthquake was made by the government like some people speculate, or that it was because the Haitians made a deal with the devil supposedly. I haven't bought into those theories. Nicola Tesla created an earthquake machine, "fracking" has been known to cause earthquakes, I don't doubt that it is very possible humans can cause earthquakes.

Whether the earthquake was caused by man or not, the resulting destruction and death can be blamed on man. Many of the structures in Haiti were poorly made and maintained, most of the ones that collapsed were a bunch of cinder blocks slapped together with some cement, no I beams, no steel reinforcements. I'm no engineer, but I can confidently say many of those buildings were definitely not built to withstand any type of seismic activity. The horrible devastation was a perfect example of a building code anarchy.  If there were any building codes in Haiti, certainly nobody followed them.  The US Embassy architects had the right idea, that massive gleaming granite 3 floor building didn't even have a scratch after the earthquake, I take that back- the Obama portrait was crooked.

Although it was mother nature that caused the earthquake many lives were taken that could have been prevented with better building practices, unfortunately it takes a real tragedy to change things sometimes.