by MELISSA WICKHAM

NICOLE CLARKE-BRATHWAITE has all her suitcases packed.

But she's not going on a trip.

She's preparing for what she believes will be the worst disaster to hit Barbados in its entire history – a tsunami.

The prophetess, a member of Worship and Breakthrough Centre, says God gave her revelations earlier this year detailing how He will pour out His wrath on the country because it has gone astray.

As a result, the 28-year-old Christ Church wife and mother has mapped an evacuation plan to a "safe zone" on the island, which she declined to divulge, and is in the process of stockpiling water and food to last for about a year.

Her kitchen and backyard are filled with containers and receptacles for water while there is hardly standing room in one of her bedrooms which resembles a small warehouse with packed suitcases, barrels of food items and boxes of toiletries.

"I got these containers from Pine Hill Dairy to store water and I got these ones from Rose & Laflamme. I'm telling you so you can prepare, too," she told the SUNDAY SUN team.

She is also warning the rest of the island to prepare, or suffer the consequences.

"On Good Friday, God gave me a message to give to my church. He told me to tell them to pack their bags and prepare for this disaster as for child-birth.

"All the necessary stuff they need to take from home in the case of emergency, pack it in suitcases, bags and put it in one place so that they can snatch them up and run," she implored.

Nicole said she had a vivid and frightening dream around April this year, where she was looking up at the sky and saw an angel, in the shape of a man, handing out judgements. He had a number of packages in his hand; one for Barbados, and the rest for other nations.

When he left, the sky turned grey, then black, and clouds started to build. She recalled seeing people panicking, some even pulling out their hair, because of the destruction that was upon them.

She said God would first send a wind to blow away "the stench of sin" on the island; and then water to wash it away. She believes God showed her the source of a coming tsunami – Kick 'em Jenny – and noted three signs before its arrival – a rising horizon, a receding shoreline, and earthquake tremors.

However, Nicole said she was shown a number of safe shelters where people could go. These included the Grantley Adams School, St Joseph's Parish Church, Villa Nova, St Margaret's Church, Mount Tabor Church and St Anne's Church.

She said the truly safe zones would be two or three miles inland from the East Coast, and seven to eight miles inland from the South and West coasts.

And, the reason why she was storing up so much drinking water was because she prophesied there would be many dead bodies polluting the water.

The family has seemingly thought of everything to survive in the aftermath of a disaster.

Nicole said God had given her every detail, down to the last item on her shopping list. She and her husband are planning a shopping trip overseas to purchase more food items to store up.

"Everytime I get containers for water, He (God) keeps telling me more, more, more. You need a lot of water for a year. Me, my husband and my son, we have all our suitcases packed; right now we're living out of suitcases. We always try to keep gas in the van at all times for emergency purposes.

"I always try to keep money on my cellphone because this was one of the things God told me about," she said, adding that only the TDMA cellphones were going to work "after the tsunami".

And as for their evacuation plan in the event of a disaster?

"We have all of that covered. I can't tell you where we are going. But the safe zone that God gave us, we drove there and we timed how long it would take to get from here to there. It took us like 15 minutes.

Water covering island

"God gave me instructions that when this thing happens don't stop for anything, water, gas nothing or I will lose my life. He told me not to let nobody stop me. I even told my husband when that day comes and he doesn't want to move, I would have to go and leave him," Nicole said.

Most of her relatives do not buy into her prophesies, dismissing them as "foolishness".

However, she remains firm in her convictions despite their disbelief.

In one of her visions, she said St Lucy and other parts of the island covered in water.

"He looked down and said: 'I can now see my face in the nation,'" she said.

Nicole said she knew she would be heavily criticised for sharing her revelations but she had to be obedient to God.

"People will see this and say 'I know her and she is this and that'; but it is not about me. I am being obedient to God. He said He is positioning his remnant in the earth and He is requiring truth and holiness. Why look at the messenger when you can listen to the message?" she said.