Kalain Ho­sein

Me­te­o­rol­o­gist/Re­porter

kalain.ho­sein@guardian.co.tt

Heavy af­ter­noon show­ers across parts of cen­tral and north­ern Trinidad were a re­minder the coun­try is still in the Wet Sea­son, with street and flash flood­ing across nu­mer­ous ar­eas yes­ter­day.

The sit­u­a­tion was so bad that fire of­fi­cers had to res­cue a woman and two chil­dren in flood­wa­ters.

Up to three inch­es (75 mil­lime­tres) of rain­fall was record­ed across parts of Ch­agua­nas, En­deav­our, and Char­lieville where mul­ti­ple road­ways be­came in­un­dat­ed as drains and small streams reached ca­pac­i­ty. So­cial me­dia was al­so flood­ed with videos of flood­ing with­in Ch­agua­nas Prop­er as sev­er­al roads be­came tem­porar­i­ly im­pass­able.

Of­fi­cers from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice were spot­ted at Eleanor Street and Mar­ket Road, Ch­agua­nas, res­cu­ing a woman and two chil­dren who drove in­to the high flood­ed streets.

The north­bound lanes of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way at Ch­agua­nas, and as the rains spread north and west, the east­bound lanes of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way in the vicin­i­ty of Ma­coya, al­so ex­pe­ri­enced brief street floods.

Road­ways turned in­to rivers in Tu­na­puna and in Mara­cas, St Joseph, as heavy rains per­sist­ed through the mid-af­ter­noon. Parts of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in the vicin­i­ty of Tu­na­puna al­so be­came im­pass­able due to flood­ing.