A fam­i­ly liv­ing along Up­per Rich Plain Road, Diego Mar­tin, says they are now liv­ing in fear that an­oth­er round of heavy rain­fall could send their home crash­ing down the hill­side.

“My biggest fear is sleep­ing and ain’t hear­ing when I’m go­ing down the road,” fa­ther and hus­band Brew­ster Rogers said yes­ter­day.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia at his home, Rogers said the land in front of the house he has lived in for more than 30 years start­ed slip­ping last Thurs­day.

“When every­thing start to come down the hill there, I just had to watch, sand just rolling down. I just say way, boy,” he said.

Rogers said a re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion crew vis­it­ed the next day and cleared the dirt and rub­ble from the road.

He said he asked the cor­po­ra­tion to pro­vide sheets of plas­tic to help stop the slip­page and even sent pic­tures, but no fur­ther as­sis­tance came.

As he an­tic­i­pat­ed, when heavy rain fell again, more of the land gave way, leav­ing on­ly about five or six feet be­tween the slip­page and his house.

Rogers said he had spent about $2,000 in the last week on a makeshift drainage sys­tem to curb the wa­ter flow off the hill but was not sure how much good that would do.\

He had planned to build a drain dur­ing the dry sea­son but has to fast-track the con­struc­tion. He made this de­ci­sion af­ter he no­ticed that wa­ter from neigh­bours high­er up was set­tling in his yard.

“At the same time, I know every­body will be over­whelmed with re­ports and stuff like that, so I don’t want to be the one com­plain­ing. But if my house goes down the road, what will hap­pen to the neigh­bours high­er up?” he asked.

His house is in jeop­ardy, but he is not the on­ly res­i­dent af­fect­ed.

At least nine oth­er house­holds on the hill have to park their ve­hi­cles low­er down the road and walk up the steep in­cline.

Rogers said this was not the first time the land had slipped, and he be­lieves the en­tire hill needs prop­er road in­fra­struc­ture and drainage.

He said res­i­dents had tried to ad­dress the prob­lem on their own, but not every­one was will­ing to con­tribute fi­nan­cial­ly.

Rogers is call­ing on the au­thor­i­ties to at least pro­vide sheets of plas­tic to stop the slip­page un­til re­pairs can be done dur­ing the dry sea­son.

A util­i­ty pole that sup­plies elec­tric­i­ty and oth­er ser­vices to most of the res­i­dents on the hill is al­so on the verge of col­lapse.

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, which said it would in­form the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit.

The in­for­ma­tion was al­so sent to the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for the area, Hans De Vi­gnes, and the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion.