Util­i­ty com­pa­nies were on full alert overnight as the storm ap­proached. Eyes were on T&TEC fol­low­ing Feb­ru­ary’s black­out and the com­pa­ny as­sured all key per­son­nel and staff were on full alert. All field staff were called out and ex­ter­nal tree trim­ming per­son­nel are to be avail­able to as­sist with re­sponse ac­tiv­i­ties. The na­tion­wide black­out was caused by a fall­en tree.

T&TEC said that two sub­sta­tions have al­ready been de­ployed to To­ba­go and two to the North Coast and all mo­bile sub­sta­tions were on stand­by.

Over 70 crews are on stand­by na­tion­wide, with sep­a­rate crews to be rout­ed to vul­ner­a­ble re­gions in East Trinidad and East To­ba­go.

Mean­while, the Min­istry of Health ad­vised that non-es­sen­tial ser­vices like out­pa­tient clin­ics at both hos­pi­tals and health cen­tres were sus­pend­ed. But ac­ci­dent and emer­gency lo­ca­tions re­mained open as well as all in­pa­tient hos­pi­tal ser­vices.

WASA was im­ple­ment­ing spe­cif­ic mea­sures and the au­thor­i­ty ad­vised that its what­sApp num­ber, 709-7793, was avail­able in ad­di­tion to the web­site live chat at www.wasa.gov.tt

Sail­ings re­main af­fect­ed as well. The 6.30 am sail­ing from Scar­bor­ough to Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day morn­ing was can­celled.

Caribbean Air­lines al­so en­cour­aged pas­sen­gers to reg­is­ter for re­al-time flight no­ti­fi­ca­tions and up­dates on pos­si­ble de­lays or can­cel­la­tions.