Samoa Tsunami: Families Crying Through the Darkest Night

I’ve been listening to Kerre on Newstalk ZB this evening.  Caller after caller express their devastation at hearing the tragedy unfolding in Samoa. That’s coming from family and friends in New Zealand.

Thinking of our people back in Samoa. Missing children. Missing mothers and fathers. Missing grandmothers and grandbrothers. Missing brothers and sisters. A large number of families who are still missing tonight and in the dark without shelter. Heartbreaking.

Thinking of the families in the dark tonight out in the South Coast with power lines out, the dead around them.

Families looking for missing children, grandparents, mothers and fathers.  How, and where will they sleep tonight, amidst the debris and the smell of death? I can imagine the cries that will bellow throughout the desseminated villages in the darkest night. Hospitals are reportedly full and there’s no room for the dead that have been found. I know Poutasi Hospital destroyed. In a country that does not have a first class medical resources, any reduction to medical resources are likely to have overwhelmingly distrastrous effects on a people, already traumatised.

List of villages on the South Coast of Upolu (the most beautiful coastline in the world): Lepa, Falealili, Lalomanu, Aufaga with Paradise Cove, Matatufu, Lotofaga, Aleipata district, the list goes on. In the chaos and debris and blocked roads, I cannot see the rescue teams being able to reach all the villages within the next day or so. They will need more manpower and equipment than Samoa presently has.

God Bless Samoa. Please. Time for prayer.

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