The first eyewitness reports were confused and sporadic but they already gave a sense that this is a major disaster. "The sky is just gray with dust," Henry Bahn, a US Department of Agriculture official who is in Haiti, told the Associated Press. "Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken."
Gradually the nightmare that befell the poorest country in the western hemisphere late on Tuesday afternoon became evident. Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States who managed to briefly contact the office of the Haitian president, told CNN that Haiti had suffered a "catastrophe of major proportions."
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