(CNN) -- In Jacmel, Haiti, as light rain fell with the darkness Wednesday, Gwenn Goodale Mangine and a group of 35 people prepared to spend their second night sleeping outside on mattresses and cardboard boxes in her driveway. Everyone is scared to be indoors. It is cold and damp. The people of Jacmel line the streets, setting tires on fire to light up a town that has been reduced to rubble in many parts and is without power, she said. The flames are all that illuminate what remains of this town on the southern coast of Haiti, about 25 miles from the capital Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Residents in Jacmel, Haiti, sleeping on mattresses, boxes in driveways
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Gwenn Goodale Mangine tells CNN schools, homes, churches destroyed in town
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Mangine: "There's no way to dig them out. No big machinery. No tools. There's nothing"
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Earthquake tore a "big chunk of the hearts of the Haitian people," Mangine says
"I still feel optimistic that if anyone can rise above this, it is the people of @placeholder," she said.