Food and other supplies began to arrive on Friday in the Haitian port city of Gonaives while back the floods that killed at least 136 people and forced thousands onto the roofs of their houses.
A freighter with food supplied by the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations and other supplies such as drinking water cut in the city, where streets are covered by mud and covered corpses of animals drowned after four days flooding.
It was the first of several cargo ships and aircraft, including helicopters, which will arrive with aid for Gonaives, said WFP.
Haiti, the poorest country in americas where most of the population lives on 2 dollars or less a day, was hit by three successive storms in less than a month.
Tropical Storm Fay left more than 50 people dead last month, while Hurricane Gustav killed at least 75 others.
This week Tropical Storm Hanna took over 2 meters of muddy water through Gonaives. At least 136 people died, most of them in the city, said the office of civil protection Caribbean country.
Hanna left for Haiti on Friday and was preparing to landfall early on Saturday on the east coast of the Carolinas in the United States.
However, in its wake appeared with Ike hurricane force, which could happen near the northern Haiti before moving next week with the direction of southern Florida, Cuba or potentially the Gulf of Mexico.
The storms have flooded fields in Haiti and increased the misery of an impoverished population of nearly 9 million, struggling to cope with the increase in prices of food and fuel.
