An­na-Lisa Paul

A 25-year-old res­i­dent of Kingstown has de­scribed this morn­ing's dawn across SVG as calm and qui­et so far.

Based in the green zone which is fur­thest away from the dan­ger zone, the young man who works for a pri­vate com­pa­ny said some busi­ness­es are open­ing as nor­mal as their em­ploy­ers have not giv­en any di­rec­tives to re­main at home.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed around 6 am to­day, the res­i­dent said up to late last evening there was pan­ic buy­ing and bak­eries had run out of bread. Es­sen­tial sup­plies like bot­tled wa­ter and canned foods were al­so said to be in high de­mand.

He said some emer­gency shel­ters had not been ready to be­gin re­ceiv­ing per­sons last night and as a re­sult peo­ple were forced to sleep on the floor at some lo­ca­tions.

The young man said his fam­i­ly has not had to open their home to ac­com­mo­date evac­uees but that is a pos­si­bil­i­ty as peo­ple flee the dan­ger zone lo­cat­ed on the op­po­site end of the is­land.

He is un­cer­tain if banks will be open to­day but has promised to keep Guardian Me­dia in­formed of what is hap­pen­ing through­out the day.