Up­per Rich Plain Road, Diego Mar­tin, res­i­dent Brew­ster Rogers said he want­ed to wait his turn for as­sis­tance from the au­thor­i­ties in­stead of com­plain­ing. How­ev­er, he fears that the next heavy rain­fall could cause his home to come crash­ing down.

“At the same time, I know every­body will be over­whelmed with re­ports and stuff like that, so I don’t want to be the one com­plain­ing. But if my house goes down the road, what will hap­pen to the neigh­bours high­er up?” he asked, ex­plain­ing that this is his biggest fear.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia ear­li­er this morn­ing, Rogers said the slip­page be­gan last Wednes­day but was cleared by work­ers of the Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

“I asked the guys on the truck if I could get some plas­tic, but no­body re­al­ly came, so at least I could have put it on the thing,” he said.

But, as he feared, the next rain­fall brought the dirt down again. Rogers de­cid­ed not to wait, spend­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2,000 to build a makeshift drainage sys­tem with pipes to redi­rect the wa­ter.

“I was plan­ning to do this next year in the dry sea­son, but I had to fast-track it. That is why it looks this shady,” he ex­plained.

He is un­sure whether the sys­tem will make a dif­fer­ence.

And while his house is di­rect­ly at risk, he is not the on­ly one af­fect­ed. At least nine oth­er house­holds on the hill must park low­er down the road and walk up.

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, which said it would in­form the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit. The in­for­ma­tion was al­so sent to the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for the area, Hans De Vi­gnes.

Mean­while, a util­i­ty pole that sup­plies elec­tric­i­ty and oth­er ser­vices to most of the res­i­dents on the hill is al­so on the verge of col­lapse.