The media reports that there is a bottleneck at the main airport, and the seaport has been destroyed. Haiti shares its island with the Dominican Republic, which has 9 international airports, and 13 seaports. Based on this, I wonder why the releif agencies are not using these facilities and then trucking in the needed supplies?
Simple answer, apparently, is there are no roads. We are "blessed" by our Interstate highway system in the US. That doesn't exist in a 3rd world country like Haiti or the Dominican Republic. The island of Hispanola, where both countries are located, is apparently mountainous in the middle, and few roads cross it - I only saw one road on Google maps and it looks like a mountainous, two lane road from the satellite pic. And you can be assured that some of the roads as you get closer to the disaster site were destroyed in the earthquake. Apparently, it's 8-9 hours by car from Santo Domingo, DR, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on a good day. After an earthquake is
not a good day.
I've never been there, this is just what I've read on the 'net and heard on TV.
Frankly, I'm impressed at the volume of the response already from the US and other countries. USCG personnel were there within about 6 hours. The first search and rescue team, from Iceland, was on the ground just 24 hours after the earthquake (who even knew Iceland had a search and rescue team?) and the first US USAR team, from VA, was there in 36 hours. It's amazing to me to see on TV the number of planes from many countries with rescue and recovery cargo being unloaded at the airport.
Perhaps you will be able to use your stable of Pro-Cars.... Call me Steve if you need a couple more...
All the county fire departments around here have Ambusses - an ambulance bus that can transport 30 stretcher patients. It would take very little time to load and move 120 patients by Ambus.