Basically, the hills, the mountains Gonaives were already completely saturated from Faye, from Gustav, from Hanna.
Ike, he says, destroyed six major bridges, severing ties to the area around Gonaives.
Many parts of the island are now flooded, including the devastated city of Gonaives.
The project will help improve the environmental, economic and social conditions in the Gonaives region.
The main hospital in Gonaives and most of the health clinics were destroyed in Tropical Storm Hanna.
This is hugely important because Hurricane Ike knocked out the last road connecting Gonaives to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
NPR's Jason Beaubien is in the Haitian port of Gonaives and thanks very much for being with us today.
The massive choppers are capable of moving heavy cargo from ships into Gonaives.
Gonaives was hit heavily again in 2008, when four tropical systems passed through.
Then the next day we went in Gonaives, and the best way to describe it is, you know, Katrina times a million.
On Saturday, the U.N. finally got a road link between Gonaives back to Port Au Prince, and Ike's knocked that out as well.
He says the death toll, especially in Gonaives, would have been much higher had the government not issued warnings right before Hanna hit.
So at the moment you got no road access into Gonaives, you've got cities, 300, 000 people, all the water supplies have been contaminated with flood waters.
The Coast Guard said the freighter's last port of call was believed to be Gonaives, Haiti's fourth largest city that was the recent scene of rebel activity.
And in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne killed more than 3, 000 people as it passed north of Haiti, with most of the deaths in the northwestern city of Gonaives.
And now, it's enough to just completely flood Gonaives again.
The problem is getting those supplies to the city of Gonaives and other areas that because of flooding and mudslides are now cut off from the rest of the country.
In the three years since a massive 7.0-magnatude earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti, Timberland has helped plant 2.2 million trees in the rural area surrounding Gonaives.
When Captain Ahmed isn't performing first aid out on the street, he is one of the Pakistani soldiers assigned to help guard the more than 200 inmates in the Gonaives jail.
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