Rishard Khan
The Southbound lane of the Solomon Hochoy Highway in the vicinity of Unicomer and Courts, Freeport were flooded after heavy showers around midday on Tuesday.
This was confirmed by the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government around 2 pm in an update posted to it's Facebook page. Up to that point it confirmed seven other flooding incidents.
These are Ariapita Avenue and South Quay in the vicinity of City Gate in Port of Spain, Saddle Road, Santa Cruz approaching the old road, Diego Martin Highway in the vicinity of Sierra Leone intersection, Scott Street in San Fernando, the Couva Main Road in the vicinity of the gas station, and Richmond Street in the vicinity of Independence Square.
In its 1.30 pm update, the MoRDLG also warned that the Maraval River was at 98 per cent and bursting its banks.
Power also went out across Trinidad with six large area outages being reported in South Park, Charlieville, Picton, Morvant, Laventille, Maraval according to T&TEC. It said work crews were being dispatched to restore supply "in the shortest possible time, pending further weather challenges."
Other affected communities included Belmont, Cascade, Barataria and environs.
T&T is currently under a yellow-level adverse weather alert from the Met Office until noon on Wednesday. It went into effect at 2 am on Tuesday.
"There continues to be a high (70% - 80%) chance of heavy showers/thunderstorms affecting Trinidad, Tobago and surrounding marine areas. These conditions are associated with the passage of an active tropical wave interacting with the ITCZ.
Conditions are expected to intermittently deteriorate over the period," the Met Office said in a release.
It warned that heavy downpours can lead to isolated flood events that may cause temporary traffic disruptions and gusty winds may be experienced in the vicinity of heavy showers and thunderstorms. It said seas can also become agitated which may hamper marine activities.
