by Tim Scordato
Kurt Daviscourt (left) answers students' questions about earthquakes and their effects on buildings.
After the earthquake, many people in Haiti were
afraid to re-enter their standing homes. Instead, they camped in their yards or
in the street in pup tents and makeshift canopies strung from trees. The tarps
strewn about flapped in the wind like distress flags signaling, “Here is a
family that wants to go back inside, but just can’t.” Understandably, they
wanted assurances. Afterall, the house next door was flat.
“It was easy to see that the fastest way to get a lot of
people out of the camps and streets was to send ‘house doctors’ to check out
the houses that did not fall, but may have cracked a bit,” remembers THP
President, Deacon Patrick Moynihan. “We knew just who to call.”
