Words Matter #1
"‘This Is the Only Shelter We Have’: Storm-Battered Haitians Huddle in Caves"
NY Times
October 17th 2016
"When the rain comes at night in these distant mountains, the people flee what homes they have left. They race down hills threaded with stones and ragged palm branches, the earth the color of rust."
"For four days and nights, they huddled in its womb before emerging, frightened the hurricane might return. They slept on a floor of stacked boulders near the cave’s mouth, lighting small fires for warmth and light."
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I really love these two excerpts from an article about the damaging effects of Hurricane Matthew. The author really chose to make the ordinary extraordinary by describing simple events such as rain and wind in immense detail that really engulfs the reader into the story as if he/ she were actually there. I particularly like the phrase about the survivors huddling in the caves womb, because it really brings to life how that cave is a save place of refuge, to escape such tragic events.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/americas/haiti-hurricane-matthew-caves.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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