As the wind howled and rain tore through the Haitian village of Messailler, Charles Amicy huddled on a dark staircase with his family.Amicy and his wife tried to console the group of six children, three of them his own. As they wept, he encouraged them to pray.
As the floodwaters raged around their two-story home, they sang religious songs to help block out the screams of neighbors.
''It was the darkest night of my life,'' said Amicy, 48, a Presbyterian pastor, recalling Hurricane Ike's wrath early Sunday morning.
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