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Haiti: 221 hours, 300+ patients Hurricane Matthew took a catastrophic toll on an already impoverished and vulnerable Haiti in early October. The National Hurricane Center estimated landfalling winds of 145 mph, making Matthew a Category 4 – the strongest storm to hit the nation since 1964 and the third strongest Haitian landfall on record. About

Louisiana #1: 532 hours, 7 homes assisted In mid-March, over two feet of rain fell in Louisiana and other areas of the South, closing roads, flooding homes, and causing over 5,000 people to evacuate. Over 12,000 homes were damaged where rivers reached all-time record highs. Within days of the disaster, ROWW deployed a team to

On June 23, 2016, thunderstorms brought torrential rain to much of West Virginia, resulting in accumulations of up to 10 in (250 mm) in 12-24 hours. According to meteorologists at the National Weather Service, this rainfall qualifies as a 1,000-year event for parts of Fayette, Nicholas, and Greenbrier Counties. In addition to the torrential rain,

Fiji: 266 hours, 600+ treated In February, Team ROWW deployed to Fiji in response to Cyclone Winston, the second strongest storm to ever make landfall (second only to Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines). An estimated 347,000 people were directly impacted by the storm. So many people lost literally everything – their home, school, community