Flooding – as rains come

THIS CAR could not make it through the rising water along Bush Hall Main Road. (Rawle Culbard)

Sat, May 05, 2012 - 12:07 AM

HEAVY RAINFALL yesterday triggered flooding and the forecast is more of the same over the weekend. Sections of Bridgetown and other areas in St Michael were under floodwaters as persistent rains hit the island.

In areas such as Bush Hall, Tudor Bridge, Baxters Road and Martindales Road both vehicles and pedestrians struggled to navigate the waters.

The Barbados Meteorological Office issued a special weather bulletin at 2.45 p.m. yesterday, stating that “a trough system located to the west of the island chain has induced the northward movement of the inter-tropical convergence zone across Barbados”.

The statement said this had resulted in “cloudy-to-overcast skies, some outbreaks of moderate-to-heavy showers, periods of rain and isolated thunderstorms spreading over the island during the day”.

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Posted by Kathryn Daniel 1 year ago: Would it not be prudent and sensible to use dry weather to inspect, clean and repair drains and gutters are needed? Would it also not make more sense to immediately remove the weeds and refuse that have been cleared from the drains at once instead of leaving them piled up like a roadside obstacle course, just waiting for a heavy shower to wash everything BACK into the gutters again? Just give the workers some heavy garbage bags! On that note, let me me publicly praise and compliment the gentleman with dreadlocks who regularly cleans the Gun Hill roadside - he works diligently and is unfailingly polite.