Hurricane Preparations Underway in Haiti

The International Organization for Migration says efforts are underway across Haiti to prepare for a summer of tropical storms and hurricanes. 

The IOM says this year's hurricane season poses a particular danger because 1.5 million earthquake survivors are living in flimsy tents and shelters in Haiti. 

International aid agencies say the challenges ahead are enormous.  They warn the coming bad weather may bring another humanitarian disaster down on the Haitian people.

The catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti six months ago killed an estimated 230,000 people, made more than one-and-a-half million people homeless, and destroyed much of the country's infrastructure.

Haiti is situated in the middle of what is called Hurricane Alley, a path that major tropical cyclones tend to take after they form in the mid-Atlantic.
Over the past five years, more than 5,000 people in Haiti were killed by hurricanes and storms.