"Deadly Season" Haiti -- long ranked as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere -- saw its people buckle under the cruelty of a merciless hurricane season in 2008. Four consecutive storms slammed the island nation, leaving in their wake staggering death tolls and massive destruction to an already-frail way of life.

Sonson Pierre, 7, sits in knee deep mud outside his family's flooded Gonaives home in Haiti in the midst of a cruel 2008 Hurricane Season.