Des­per­ate to get his med­ica­tion, a 64-year-old Bar­rack­pore man wad­ed through flood wa­ters to get to the hos­pi­tal’s phar­ma­cy in San Fer­nan­do this morn­ing.

Azad Ali, how­ev­er, is wor­ried about how he is go­ing to make it back home as taxis can­not work in his com­mu­ni­ty be­cause the roads are im­pass­able.

Ali is one of the hun­dreds of res­i­dents who are trapped in their homes along the Rochard Dou­glas Road and en­vi­rons in Debe, Pe­nal, Fyz­abad, Siparia, Wood­land and oth­er ar­eas in the south Trinidad.

Hop­ing to send an SOS to au­thor­i­ties, Ali came to the T&T Guardian of­fice, which is op­po­site the Teach­ing Hos­pi­tal in San Fer­nan­do.

“It re­al­ly, re­al­ly bad. I take a chance. I had to walk through about four feet of wa­ter un­til a van gave me a ride. But the wa­ter a lot high­er in some oth­er ar­eas.

“Right now my son kind of hand­i­cap, his wife and my four grand­chil­dren (10, 12, 5, 3) trap in the house. I am ask­ing and plead­ing for help. We will need wa­ter and food sup­plies,” lament­ed Ali, who said the floods be­gan to rise around 5 pm on Thurs­day.

“We need ur­gent help. How I go­ing to get back home now I don’t know. The last two floods were not as high and wide­spread as this one.”

The heavy rains and floods were brought on by an In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ) weath­er pat­tern.