date:Nov 08, 2012
t through the winter cropping season starting in December.
Sandy hit Haiti on October 23. Three consecutive days of intense winds and heavy rain caused severe flooding, damaging and destroying homes, farms and public infrastructure.
It was the third disaster to hit the country in the space of a few months. Between May and June a severe drought struck at the beginning of the critical spring cropping season. In August Haiti was battered by Tropical Storms Isaac followed two months later by Sand