Al­though it has not ex­pe­ri­enced the type of flood­ing be­ing wit­nessed in Trinidad, To­ba­go has not spared by the cur­rent bad weath­er af­fect­ing the two is­lands since Wednes­day.

Caribbean Air­lines has is­sued an ad­vi­so­ry can­celling flights be­tween both is­lands due to poor vis­i­bil­i­ty cre­at­ed by the rains and flood­ing around the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. Pas­sen­gers had, how­ev­er, been able to get flights from Trinidad to To­ba­go ear­li­er to­day be­fore the flood wa­ters rose high­er.

The wa­ters around To­ba­go have al­so turned brown with the high lev­el of mud that has been washed in­to the sea from the hill­sides dur­ing heavy rain­fall overnight and in­to to­day.

At Par­latu­vi­er, fish­er­men had to pool re­sources to res­cue a boat that was washed from the riv­er bank in­to the sea. At Bloody Bay, the much an­tic­i­pat­ed Blue Food Fes­ti­val ac­tiv­i­ties for to­day were al­so can­celled al­though par­tic­i­pants in the Cur­ry Duck Com­pe­ti­tion had al­ready start­ed cook­ing.

From left, Cpl Darren Henry, PC Michael Moses and PC Colin Simon were busy cooking their curry duck pot during the Blue Food Festival before it was cancelled for the day.

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To­ba­go Fes­ti­vals Com­mit­tee chair­man George Lea­cock said he was hope­ful things will im­prove for to­mor­row. He said some of the roads would have been im­pass­able from Rox­bor­ough due to the bad weath­er and some re­sult­ing land­slides.

"This is some­thing that is na­tion­wide, we have some per­form­ers from Trinidad and we un­der­stand that the air­port is closed," he said,

The Fes­ti­vals Com­mis­sion, via their Face­book page, ad­vised that the event had been can­celled and an an­nounce­ment would be made re­gard­ing to­mor­row’s events.

But res­i­dents have al­so been af­fect­ed by the bad weath­er.

Hy­acinth Moore-Thomas, 58, who lives on the banks of the riv­er at Par­latu­vi­er, said to­day's rain­fall was the worst she had ever seen. More im­por­tant­ly, she is now fear­ful her home may be in dan­ger.

Moore-Thomas said the banks of the riv­er had been cav­ing in for some time and she had ap­pealed to the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties for help to no avail. She said the prob­lem grew to­day af­ter the rains washed away part of the land that is inch­es away from her foun­da­tion.

Hyacinth Moore-Thomas shows the area where the land near her home was washed away by flood waters earlier today.

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The rivers in To­ba­go have al­so over­flowed in Cour­land and Eng­lish­man's Bay

Dur­ing Guardian Me­dia's vis­it along the North Side Road to Bloody Bay ear­li­er sev­er­al land­slides were ob­served.

To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (TEMA) di­rec­tor Alan Stew­art ad­vised peo­ple to stay off the roads of To­ba­go's North Coast and the Wind­ward Road. He said TEMA re­ceived six re­ports of in­ci­dents be­tween yes­ter­day and to­day, in­clud­ing a blocked road at Ba­co­let near the Health Cen­tre caused by a fall­en tree that was lat­er cleared by TEMA.

At Black Rock, ris­ing flood wa­ters threat­ened the safe­ty of a fam­i­ly in that area, af­ter the rough seas cre­at­ed a sand dome that caused wa­ter to back up. At Whim Cres­cent, a land­slide threat­ened a house un­der con­struc­tion.

Stew­art said To­ba­go is not out of the woods and urged To­bag­o­ni­ans to down­load the Zel­lo app to com­mu­ni­cate with re­lief agen­cies like TEMA and RE­ACT.

He urged per­sons to be ex­treme­ly vig­i­lant for slope fail­ures that can re­sult in lamp­posts and falling trees.

"If you know that your prop­er­ty is in an area sub­ject­ed to flood­ing then you should take the nec­es­sary steps to move your ar­ti­cles to high­er ground and do the nec­es­sary as cre­at­ing dykes to pre­vent your prop­er­ty from wa­ter," he said.

Stew­art said T&T was not yet out of the woods since this was the height of the hur­ri­cane sea­son.