The lifeless body of Tamesha Jean, 5, is loaded into a truck in Cabaret, Haiti. She drowned during Hurricane Ike as the storm washed her from bed in the middle of the night.
Haiti -- long ranked as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere -- saw its people buckle under the cruelty of a merciless hurricane season in 2008. Four consecutive storms slammed the island nation, leaving in their wake staggering death tolls and massive destruction to an already-frail way of life.
