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NewsWhore
12-17-2007, 04:50 PM
Even after the experience of running from the huge waves generated by Tropical Storm Olga, the residents of Villa Iris in Nagua have gone back to build houses on the beaches. People are walking along the beaches in search of the odd piece of tin roofing or usable piece of wood. They are rebuilding less than 15 meters from the storm wall that was built to hold back the sea. In the shantytown of Rincon de Molinillo alone, the waters destroyed 110 houses in less than an hour before the very eyes of their inhabitants who had not heeded the Civil Defense call to evacuate the area.

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