The people of southern Haiti are traumatized and the landscape has suffered “complete devastation.” Hurricane Matthew survivors “have never seen anything like this,” Christopher Bessey, the country representative for Haiti for Catholic Relief Services, reports. The Category 4

The death toll in Haiti had exceeded 370.

Matthew ruins crops, destroys water treatment plants and leaves a climbing death toll in an already-poor nation.

For displaced Haitians in San Diego and Mexico, the real emergency is what to do now.

Forecasters expected Matthew to dump up to 30 inches of rain in most communities, with some locales receiving up to 40 inches.

Haitian Senator Nenel Cassy described the situation as “truly catastrophic.”