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The effects of Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti are evident everywhere.

Pastor John Hanson with International Missions Outreach of Haiti, a Kanawha County native, provided a first hand account from Port-au-Prince on Friday's MetroNews Talkline.

"Buildings are flattened down, three or four story buildings that you wouldn't even believe could be shaken.  They're on the ground and thousands are still trapped inside those buildings," Pastor Hanson said.

He and his wife have lived and worked in Haiti for decades.

They had just arrived home at the main compound for International Missions on Tuesday when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit.

Pastor Hanson says the quake sounded like a "roaring train."

"The house just went everywhere," he says.

"We were on the third story and we finally got out of it and, when we got out of the house, there was a two story school behind us that was just leveled to the ground and we could hear children screaming and trying to get out."

On Thursday night, the daughter of one of their cooks died after being trapped under rubble since the quake.

"It was pitiful.  She just screamed and cried the whole time she was there and it's just like that everywhere.  People, they were running around stunned, just in a daze.  They didn't know what to think.  Vehicles and things were just shaken and thrown all over the compound here."

Pastor Hanson says they need supplies.

"Ever since this has happened, we've had no food, no water.  The electric has been out.  The phone lines have been down."

The quake, though, destroyed the Haitian docks so any relief must be flown into Haiti.  The problem is the airport there is too small to handle the number of planes trying to get into the country.

"As soon as one would land and get out, another one would come in right behind it," he says of the traffic at the airport.

He was waiting for a plane full of medical supplies from Branson, Missouri to arrive on Friday.  That plane was diverted to the Dominican Republic on Thursday because there was no slot available into Haiti.

The death toll from the quake could be as high as 50,000.  Millions more have been injured.

Hanson is originally from Clendenin where International Missions Outreach of Haiti has an office.  You can reach that office at 304-548-7009.

You can also find out more about the organization at www.imohaiti.org.