Trying to prevent 'absolutely catastrophic' situation in Haiti

International aid groups were feverishly trying to get supplies into quake-ravaged Haiti on Thursday to prevent the situation from going from "dire to absolutely catastrophic."The search-and-rescue efforts are the top priority."The ability to get people out of that rubble is paramount," said Jonathan Aiken, a spokesman for the American Red Cross. "You have a very limited time to accomplish that before people die and before you start to get into issues of diseases."Behind the scenes, a massive coordination effort involving dozens of aid groups, the Haitian government, the United Nations and the U.S. military was under way to get food, water, tents and other supplies to survivors of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake.Ian Rodgers, a senior emergency adviser for Save the Children, said aid efforts were at a "tipping point."

I agree with Jordan on the terribleness of the situation, it is hard to sit in this comphy chair looking at thousdands of dolalrs worth of electronics when there are poeple in the world with absolutly nothing, trapped unter a ton of rubble starving to deth. I hope that relief can come quikly to the survivors.

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