Emergency teams rushed to the south of Haiti on Monday to find and treat survivors trapped under earthquake debris, with only hours before a major storm was expected to make landfall and drench the remote area in rain and potentially cause flash floods.
Across Haiti’s southern peninsula, the region hardest hit by Saturday’s quake, thousands of people were left without shelter after their houses collapsed in the earthquake, giving them nowhere to go as the storm approached.
Monday night, tropical depression Grace lashed Haiti with 35-mile-an-hour winds, and dumped what was expected to be as much as 10 inches of rain on the same cities and towns wrecked by the earthquake two days earlier.
In Les Cayes, a city on Haiti’s southern coast, earthquake victims who had lost their homes, or were too frightened to stay in damaged houses, huddled on a soccer field under plastic tarps and tents made with bedsheets and sticks. But rising winds and…