At home in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, Marie Auguste and her family have been crying nonstop since they learned of terrible news: A relative in Florida heard they had lost four loved ones in a matter of moments in the earthquake that devastated Haiti.Read the whole thing!
"Everybody is going through hell right now," said her son, Darryl.
While the family's tragedy was relayed through a rare phone connection to the island, most other Chicagoans who hail from Haiti or have devoted their lives to helping the needy nation were enduring a different sort of hell Wednesday, as a nonstop series of telephone calls and e-mails was met with sickening silence.
The earthquake may have triggered a massive, 21st century relief effort. Appeals for help were going viral on the Web. On-the-ground dispatches were shooting around Twitter. And people were posting photographs of missing relatives on Facebook.
But a more common reality for Chicagoans was frustration over a lack of information about loved ones or getting answers to life-and-death questions through an excruciating and unreliable drip of news, parceled out in third-hand accounts from neighbors or abrupt text messages.
UPDATE 4:24 PM ABC7 has a story about Stroger Hospital Nurses on their way to Haiti. Below is a video report!
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