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Haiti's Port in Bad Shape
There is only one functioning pier. It looks stable, but it is not. The Americans weren't happy that a French naval vessel, the Francis Garnier, had docked. They weren't being competitive. They were being cautious. The French ship and its cargo could have tipped the pier over like an empty paper cup. The civilian engineer for the Navy had made a pendulum out of a piece of string, a twig and a weight -- a half-full plastic eyedropper. He told a sailor to keep an eye on it."If it starts to swing, run," he said. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-21 |
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