A Recovery Effort, One Step at a Time (Front‪)‬

virginia beach Solange Charles sits in the kitchen of a sprawling Sandbridge home, and reflects on how life turns in a moment. [paragraph] For her, that moment was 4:53 p.m. on Jan. 12. [paragraph] That's when she was in another kitchen, in her native Haiti. [paragraph] "I lived in a nice house and everything was wonderful," the 67-year-old woman says in lightly accented English. But in that January instant, an earthquake sent the walls tumbling down upon her. She was trapped under rubble for 20 minutes. Then she sat in a pickup for five days waiting for help.