Al­though the Pi­paro mud vol­cano seems ready to blow, most res­i­dents have re­fused to evac­u­ate. Torn be­tween the threat of the im­pend­ing erup­tion and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of floods as­so­ci­at­ed with Trop­i­cal Storm Karen, res­i­dents opt­ed to stay in their homes.

° Avoid flood wa­ters; wa­ter may be con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed by oil, gaso­line, or raw sewage. Wa­ter may al­so be elec­tri­cal­ly charged from downed pow­er lines.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia says re­ports that all schools will be closed to­mor­row are "ab­solute­ly not true".

Gov­ern­ment has dis­con­tin­ued the trop­i­cal storm warn­ing for T&T. How­ev­er, a trop­i­cal storm warn­ing re­mains in ef­fect for Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The Min­istry of Health and the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) teams say they have al­ready tak­en proac­tive steps to en­sure that all emer­gency and es­sen­tial med­ical ser­vices are avail­able to the pop­u­la­tion in prepa­ra­tion for any sig­nif­i­cant health out­comes re­lat­ed to the pass­ing of Trop­i­cal Storm Karen.

Al­though heavy rains start­ed in San Fer­nan­do around noon, May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo is re­as­sur­ing burgess­es that the Cor­po­ra­tion is ready to re­spond in case of emer­gency. He told Guardian Me­dia a short while ago that about 200 sand­bags have been filled and are on stand­by in the event of flood­ing.

Al­though there was flood­ing on its com­pound at Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go, T&TEC crews are po­si­tioned and ready to re­spond to cus­tomers on the is­land in the wake of Trop­i­cal Storm Karen.

The T&T Pris­ons Ser­vice is on stand­by to evac­u­ate pris­on­ers if nec­es­sary as Trop­i­cal Storm Karen bears down on the coun­try.

The Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) is as­sur­ing that it has tak­en all nec­es­sary steps to pre­pare for the im­pact of Trop­i­cal Storm Karen.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers in To­ba­go that heavy rain­fall as­so­ci­at­ed with the pas­sage of Trop­i­cal Storm Karen has im­pact­ed op­er­a­tions at some of its wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Wat­son Duke is one of sev­er­al per­sons who are un­able to trav­el to To­ba­go as flights re­main ground­ed due to the in­clement weath­er and Trop­i­cal Storm watch for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

TSTT is ad­vis­ing that cus­tomers in Low­lands and en­vi­rons may ex­pe­ri­ence an in­ter­rup­tion in land­line and in­ter­net ser­vices as a re­sult of an ex­tend­ed pow­er out­age in the area.