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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Before Haiti and international donors can rebuild this devastated city, they must first destroy it.
The task of knocking down, smashing apart and hauling away the range of rubble left by the Jan. 12 earthquake will take years and cost as much as $1 billion, according to some estimates.
U.N. rapid assessment teams estimate that the 245,000 ruined or hopelessly damaged structures in Haiti will produce 30 million to 78 million cubic yards of broken blocks, twisted metal and pulverized concrete — enough to fill the Louisiana Superdome, from playing field to roof, up to 17 times.
