CEO of the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment Stephen Ram­roop said yes­ter­day he is sat­is­fied with the over­all re­sponse to dis­as­ters through­out the coun­try as a con­se­quence of yes­ter­day's heavy show­ers. The rain poured al­most cease­less­ly from Thurs­day night and are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue to­day, bring­ing with it flash flood­ing, thun­der­show­ers and gusty winds.

Yes­ter­day's show­ers re­sult­ed in a land­slide on La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant, and the winds blew the roof off a sports club in Aranguez, San Juan, Ram­roop said. He al­so said some streets in Port-of-Spain, in­clud­ing Hen­ry Street, and some parts of south Trinidad ex­pe­ri­enced flash flood­ing. But, he said, agen­cies such as the Min­istry of Works and lo­cal gov­ern­ment dis­as­ter units re­spond­ed quick­ly.

"There was no big im­pact on cit­i­zens," he added. The Met Of­fice is­sued a bul­letin at 1.43 pm yes­ter­day say­ing there was an ac­tive In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone which will af­fect the coun­try over the next four to six hours. The bul­letin said, "Trinidad and To­ba­go are both ex­pe­ri­enc­ing cloudy to over­cast con­di­tions with show­ers and thun­der­show­ers which have been heavy at times.

"This is due to an ac­tive In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone or ITCZ. This in­clement weath­er is fore­cast to per­sist for at least the next four to six hours with con­tin­u­ing show­ers and thun­der­show­ers as well as pe­ri­ods of rain. "Show­ers and thun­der­show­ers can be mod­er­ate to heavy and may be ac­com­pa­nied by gusty winds. Street/flash flood­ing is high­ly like­ly in heavy down­pours." The bul­letin asked all cit­i­zens to ex­er­cise cau­tion and to be vig­i­lant.