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Photos: Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits

Updated 2:19 PM EDT, Sun August 26, 2012
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A family huddles on a platform to escape floodwaters after evacuating its home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, August 25. Tropical Storm Isaac dumped torrential rains on Haiti, where thousands of people remain homeless more than two years after a devastating earthquake.
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A family huddles on a platform to escape floodwaters after evacuating its home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, August 25. Tropical Storm Isaac dumped torrential rains on Haiti, where thousands of people remain homeless more than two years after a devastating earthquake.
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Residents of a low-lying area in Port-au-Prince flee their flooded homes with their possessions.
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Residents of a low-lying area in Port-au-Prince flee their flooded homes with their possessions.
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Residents flee their flooded homes with their possessions.
Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits —
Residents flee their flooded homes with their possessions.
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 A man works to recover his belongings from his flattened home in a camp for displaced people in Port-au-Prince.
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A man works to recover his belongings from his flattened home in a camp for displaced people in Port-au-Prince.
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Residents leave their flooded homes with their possessions.
Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits —
Residents leave their flooded homes with their possessions.
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A family looks at a tree brought down by storm winds that hit a corner of their house in El Habanero, Barahona province.
Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits —
A family looks at a tree brought down by storm winds that hit a corner of their house in El Habanero, Barahona province.
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Residents of Jacmel make their way through floodwaters as Tropical Storm Isaac dumps heavy rains on Saturday.
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Residents of Jacmel make their way through floodwaters as Tropical Storm Isaac dumps heavy rains on Saturday.
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A mother and her child take shelter from the rain.
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A mother and her child take shelter from the rain.
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 A woman wades through flood waters to try to save her possessions from her flooded home in Port-au-Prince.
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A woman wades through flood waters to try to save her possessions from her flooded home in Port-au-Prince.
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Workers remove an electrical post blown down by Tropical Storm Isaac in Jaquimeyes, Barahona province.
Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits —
Workers remove an electrical post blown down by Tropical Storm Isaac in Jaquimeyes, Barahona province.
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A young man rides his bike by the rising water from the Riviere Grise, which runs alongside a tent city in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits —
A young man rides his bike by the rising water from the Riviere Grise, which runs alongside a tent city in Port-au-Prince.
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A man tries to stay dry.
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A man tries to stay dry.
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Mirlene Similien, 22, and her child live in a camp outside Port-au-Prince, established for people who were affected by the 2010 earthquake.
Haiti still in crisis as Isaac hits —
Mirlene Similien, 22, and her child live in a camp outside Port-au-Prince, established for people who were affected by the 2010 earthquake.
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A band plays during an announcement on August 22 that the National Palace in Port-au-Prince will be demolished. The country is still in crisis after the deadly 2010 earthquake. Now a hurricane is threatening to bring even more destruction to the island.
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A band plays during an announcement on August 22 that the National Palace in Port-au-Prince will be demolished. The country is still in crisis after the deadly 2010 earthquake. Now a hurricane is threatening to bring even more destruction to the island.
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A hillslide slum in Port-au-Prince is seen on July 12. The goverment plans to tear down the homes, housing more than 3 million people, as part of a flood-control project. The structures are subject to landslides during the country's rainy seasons.
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A hillslide slum in Port-au-Prince is seen on July 12. The goverment plans to tear down the homes, housing more than 3 million people, as part of a flood-control project. The structures are subject to landslides during the country's rainy seasons.
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Residents of the hillside slums protest their planned destruction on July 12.
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Residents of the hillside slums protest their planned destruction on July 12.
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Survivors of the January 12, 2010, earthquake continue to live in a tent city in the St. Therese suburb of Port-au-Prince on July 5. With the support of the International Office for Migration, many survivors have new found homes, leaving the tent city largely empty.
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Survivors of the January 12, 2010, earthquake continue to live in a tent city in the St. Therese suburb of Port-au-Prince on July 5. With the support of the International Office for Migration, many survivors have new found homes, leaving the tent city largely empty.
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Trash and debris litter a field where once stood tents for surviviors of the earthquake.
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Trash and debris litter a field where once stood tents for surviviors of the earthquake.
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A young child looks out of one of the remaining tents in the St. Therese suburb of Port-au-Prince on July 5.
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A young child looks out of one of the remaining tents in the St. Therese suburb of Port-au-Prince on July 5.
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 A March 5 photo shows garbage littering a canal in Port-au-Prince.
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A March 5 photo shows garbage littering a canal in Port-au-Prince.
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People walk near a cathederal destroyed by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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People walk near a cathederal destroyed by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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A Haitian man sells used shoes in Port-au-Prince amid earthquake damage on January 9.
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A Haitian man sells used shoes in Port-au-Prince amid earthquake damage on January 9.
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Earthquake debris in front of a campaign billboard for presidential candidate and former first lady Mirlande Manigat on March 19, 2011.
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Earthquake debris in front of a campaign billboard for presidential candidate and former first lady Mirlande Manigat on March 19, 2011.
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Children clear debris from a residence on March 1, 2011, in the Cité Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince.
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Children clear debris from a residence on March 1, 2011, in the Cité Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince.
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An aerial view of a tent city in a Port-au-Prince is seen on January 10, 2011, one year after the earthquake.
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An aerial view of a tent city in a Port-au-Prince is seen on January 10, 2011, one year after the earthquake.
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 People in Port-au-Prince attend a prayer service held on January 12, 2011, in memory of those killed a year earlier during the earthquake.
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People in Port-au-Prince attend a prayer service held on January 12, 2011, in memory of those killed a year earlier during the earthquake.
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 A man walks by crosses set up as memorials to the tens of thousands killed and buried in the mass grave at Titanyen on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
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A man walks by crosses set up as memorials to the tens of thousands killed and buried in the mass grave at Titanyen on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
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Haitians drive down a still-damaged road in Leogane a year after the devastating earthquake.
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Haitians drive down a still-damaged road in Leogane a year after the devastating earthquake.
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A group of men gather iron while rubble of a earthquake destoryed building t is removed. in Port au Prince, on January 8, 2011.
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A group of men gather iron while rubble of a earthquake destoryed building t is removed. in Port au Prince, on January 8, 2011.
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A young Haitian walks by dwellings being built by World Vision and UNICEF for the victims of the earthquake on January 4, 2011.
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A young Haitian walks by dwellings being built by World Vision and UNICEF for the victims of the earthquake on January 4, 2011.
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