Reginald DesRouches is a civil engineering expert who will be traveling to Haiti to work with the many destroyed or damaged buildings there. He was born in Haiti and still has many family members living there, so this is a very important trip for him. He lost an uncle from the storm. Reginald and his team of experts will be tagging buildings according to their level of sustainability. Red tag means unsafe, green is safe, and yellow means something in between. These tags will help decide what to do with the many destroyed buildings and allow builders to start from scratch when they reach construction phase. There were many personal feelings for DesRouches because of his many family ties there and he's proud to offer his service. He looks at this terrible happening as a way for Haiti to hopefully start from scratch and build a stronger nation.
I was very inspired while reading this article. Reginald DesRouches is an extremely brave and giving man in my eyes. This terrible storm has touched each of our lives in a different way, but imagine having close family members living in a place where a hurricane just hit. It was so much more personal for him than it could ever be for me. He lost an uncle and was probably worried about many of the other close people in his life. Going to Haiti to witness all the pain and disaster shows how brave he is. It's going to be difficult to witness everything that's going on there, but we need more people like Reginald DesRouches to offer their time and services. We were all given different gifts; For Reginald, it was civic engineering. He's an expert on this. I only wish that I, along with many of us, could recognize our talents and use them in a way to help the situation in Haiti. I made a comment on Krista's blog( http://earlyushistory8.blogspot.com/) talking about the t-shirt sales going on in our school now. What a great way for each of us to get involved with this! At the end of this article Des Rouches stated: "I think this earthquake, unfortunately, provides the opportunity to start from scratch and make it a much better, more resilient place." How true! We've all heard the saying, "When one door closes, another opens". This is a perfect chance to show this. I've definitely learned a lot upon reading this article and hope you can reflect on it too. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/20/quake.expert/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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It is intresting to find out that there are different symbols to people who are trying to fix things. I did not know that they had different markings for how safe a building was. This blog was very intersting
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