Haiti: Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Almost everything I read about Haiti comes accompanied with an image or piece of information about crowds of dispossessed people. Crowds on line for food. Crowds waiting to get assigned to a tent.
 
Currently there are 690,000 people homeless and only 14,000 spaces available in the sites designated to accommodate them. As the Financial Times reports today, the suffering caused by this quake is bound to get worse. Deeper trouble is one storm away.
 
Since the quake struck, the skies have been mercifully clear. But nature won’t give us such charity forever. Rains are coming. Will we bear witness to images of squalor in the camps and on the streets, people dying from cholera and other diseases that arrive with these conditions?
 
I don't know why, but for me the information coming from Haiti brings to mind a line I read almost 20 years ago in the novel Mao II by Don Delillo. “The future belongs to crowds.”