This photo released by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, shows a flooded area of Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
This photo released by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, shows a flooded area of Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
This September 3, 2008 NASA Terra satellite image shows the leading edge of Tropical Storm Hanna(Lower-R) as it approaches the US east coast(R). Hanna closed in on the southeastern US Thursday after hammering Haiti and was expected to surge into a hurricane, even as explosive Hurricane Ike gathered force in the Atlantic. As of 0900 GMT, Hanna was moving northwest and was expected to pass east of the central and northwestern Bahamas on Thursday "and will be near the southeast coast of the United States by Friday or Friday night," it said. Hanna had maximum sustained winds of about 110 kilometers (70 miles) per hour and rain bands and tropical storm force winds swirled as far as 465 km (290 miles) from its center early Thursday. \
UN peacekeepers use a stretcher to carry Chantal Pierre who is in labor at a UN base in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Pierre's baby was delivered successfully shortly after this picture was made. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
An aerial view of floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives September 3, 2008. Haiti's civil protection office said 37 of the 90 Hanna-related deaths had occurred in the port city of Gonaives, where floodwaters appeared to be receding. Picture taken September 3, 2008.
Chantal Pierre arrives in labor to a UN base in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Pierre's baby was delivered successfully shortly after this picture was made. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
Argentine doctor Julio Cesar Lotero Polesez, member of the UN peacekeeping mission, holds two newborn babies at a U.N. compound in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake. Some 250,000 people were affected in the Gonaives region, including 70,000 in 150 shelters across the city, according to an international official.
Chantal Pierre rests with her newborn baby shortly after giving birth at a U.N. compound in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake. Some 250,000 people were affected in the Gonaives region, including 70,000 in 150 shelters across the city, according to an international official.
A woman holds a cat as she walks down a street in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
UN peacekeepers, from Argentina, patrol a street of Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
This photo released by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, shows a flooded area of Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
A girl eats food distributed by Argentine UN peacekeepers at a shelter after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The official death toll in Haiti rose to 137 on Thursday.
A man carries an elderly woman on his back as he walks through a muddy street left behind by Tropical Storm Hanna in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The official death toll in Haiti rose to 137 on Thursday.
This satellite image released by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Hanna located south-southeast of Wilmington, N.C. on Thursday Sept. 4, 2008. Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina all the way to Maine.
A worker uses a forklift on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 to move a boat into Broad Creek Marina's dry-storage facility, which was constructed to withstand a Category 3 hurricane, where it will be locked up with approximately 220 other boats that have been brought in from the marina and other surrounding communities on Hilton Head Island in preparation for Tropical Storm Hanna.
People leave town after Tropical Storm Hanna caused floods in Gonaives September 3, 2008. Haiti's civil protection office said 37 of the 90 Hanna-related deaths had occurred in the port city of Gonaives, where floodwaters appeared to be receding. Picture taken September 3, 2008.
This photo released by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, shows a flooded area of Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The city was flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake.
This image provided by NOAA was taken at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. At 11 p.m. EDT, its center was 540 miles south of Wilmington, N.C., and was moving northwest at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. Rain and wind from Hanna could start as early as Friday night in the South, where some residents shuttered houses and stocked up on food and sandbags, coastal parks closed, and schools canceled events and changed sports schedules. Tropical storm watches and warnings were issued from Georgia to near Atlantic City, N.J.
This satellite image released by NOAA was taken on Thursday Sept. 4, 2008 at 10:45 pm EDT. Tropical Storm Hanna roared past the edge of the Bahamas on Thursday ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti. Hurricane Ike, a still-more-dangerous Category 4 storm, was advancing from the east.
People ask for aid from Argentine UN peacekeepers, unseen, as they wade through a flooded street caused by Tropical Storm Hanna in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The official death toll in Haiti rose to 137 on Thursday.
A girl eats food distributed by Argentine UN peacekeepers at a shelter after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The official death toll in Haiti rose to 137 on Thursday.
