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Haiti Earthquake: Rescuers Search for Survivors, Death Toll Climbs to 1,297 as Storm Nears

Haiti Earthquake: Rescuers Search for Survivors, Death Toll Climbs to 1,297 as Storm Nears
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For Haitians, quake reawakens trauma of disaster a decade ago

By Andre Paultre and Kate Chappell PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - When Lydie Jean-Baptiste saw her neighbors running from their homes on Saturday and felt the ground begin to shake beneath her feet, the 62-year-old Haitian was flooded by terrifying memories of the earthquake a decade ago that devastated her hometown. For many in the poor Caribbean nation, Saturday s major quake - which killed more than 300 people and left hundreds injured - revived the trauma of the Jan. 12, 2010 temblor from which the country was still reeling. The neighbors, I saw them running and running. I said ‘What’s wrong?’ They said ‘Earthquake!’ and I rushed to the front door, Jean-Baptiste said. All of a sudden, I had all those images of January 12 coming to my mind and I felt really, really scared. Her neighborhood of Delmas, in the southern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, was tossed by Saturday s quake, whose epicenter was some 150 km (90 miles) to the west of the capital. But in 2010, the tremor struck

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