Another call from Chris - Where they are

I received another call from Chris at about 4:45 PM PST, she was in her tent at this point, pretty exhausted, much clearer phone call this time.

With her help I think I located where they are at, I have some pictures below that I will describe shortly.  I am trying to confirm that this is correct with the base camp and will advise when that is the case.

She reiterated the mass devastation, it is like a war zone, bodies everywhere, people everywhere, chaos.  Things are very disorganized, which is not surprising at this point.  She felt tomorrow, her first real day with patients, will be very eye opening.

I found on Google Earth the Hospital Adventist and described the shape, driveway and surrounding areas to Chris.  The name is right and the description sounded right to her, so I believe this is where the team is located right now and will be based out of.  The Google Earth pictures are post earthquake, taken just 7 days ago on January 21st (if you click on the pictures you can see them larger).  You can see all of the tarp tents surrounding the hospital.  Chris said she is across the street in a tent city, I marked this on the map (first picture) with an A.

The other map shows a wider view of Port au Prince as well as the airport that they came into, the straight line distance between the airport and the hospital is just under 7 miles.  She said on the way there they drove by the capital buildings which were destroyed.  This short drive I guess took most of the afternoon.

Below the two pictures I have a link to the hospital with the web based Google Maps, so if you click on that you will be able to browse around the map to get a better idea as to where things are.

View Haiti - Hospital Adventist in a larger map