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An aerial view shows the devastation in Port de Paix after four storms in one month killed more than 800 people. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge was diverted from Continuing Promise 2008, a humanitarian mission, in the western Caribbean to conduct hurricane relief operations in Haiti, Sept. 8, 2008.

STORM WATERS

An aerial view shows the devastation in Port de Paix after four storms in one month killed more than 800 people. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge was diverted from Continuing Promise 2008, a humanitarian mission, in the western Caribbean to conduct hurricane relief operations in Haiti, Sept. 8, 2008.

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