The warn­ing of Trop­i­cal Cy­clone Two (PTC2) de­scend­ing on T&T on Tues­day trig­gered long lines out­side dozens of su­per­mar­kets and pan­ic buy­ing, as scores of cit­i­zens stocked up on es­sen­tial food sup­plies.

T&T felt the out­er bands of Po­ten­tial Trop­i­cal Cy­clone Two (PTC2) on Tues­day af­ter­noon, with winds gust­ing to 63 kilo­me­tres per hour at Crown Point, To­ba­go, ac­com­pa­nied by heavy rains.

Util­i­ty com­pa­nies were on full alert overnight as the storm ap­proached. Eyes were on T&TEC fol­low­ing Feb­ru­ary’s black­out and the com­pa­ny as­sured all key per­son­nel and staff were on full alert. All field staff were called out and ex­ter­nal tree trim­ming per­son­nel are to be avail­able to as­sist with re­sponse ac­tiv­i­ties. The na­tion­wide black­out was caused by a fall­en tree.

Ahead of the in­clement weath­er ap­proach­ing, the ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, Ken­neth Sur­ratt, is call­ing on every­one in the blind com­mu­ni­ty to get reg­is­tered with their near­est re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion so if they run in­to trou­ble, they can get im­me­di­ate help.

By 10 am yes­ter­day, many of the items to pro­tect prop­er­ties dur­ing a storm were sold out at the North­ern Hard­ware in Diego Mar­tin.

Tree trim­ming and cut­ting, sand­bag­ging, re­in­forc­ing drainage and alerts on health ser­vices op­er­a­tions were some of the ac­tiv­i­ty en­gaged in by many res­i­dents of Port-of-Spain and en­vi­rons on Tues­day, as they were on alert prepar­ing for the ap­proach­ing storm, which, at noon yes­ter­day, was 250 miles off T&T.

With pos­si­ble ex­treme weath­er on the hori­zon as a po­ten­tial trop­i­cal cy­clone moves clos­er to the is­land, parts of south Trinidad were par­tic­u­lar­ly buzzing with ac­tiv­i­ty on Tues­day.

Ac­cord­ing to the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice, the storm is a strong Trop­i­cal Wave but there is po­ten­tial for in­ten­si­fi­ca­tion in­to a Trop­i­cal Cy­clone over the next 24 hours.

Caribbean Air­lines is ad­vis­ing of fur­ther dis­rup­tions to its do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al flights due to the Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing is­sued for Trinidad and To­ba­go and the se­vere weath­er con­di­tions ex­pect­ed.

Health­care work­ers at­tached to the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) have been warned that they can­not leave work at the end of their shift un­less the next per­son on call ar­rives. 

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty is ad­vis­ing of the clo­sure of all its Cus­tomer Ser­vice Cen­tres at 12:00 noon to­day - Tues­day 28th June 2022.

Pres­tige Hold­ings Lim­it­ed has an­nounced the tem­po­rary clo­sure of KFC, Sub­way and Piz­za Hut this af­ter­noon at 4 pm due to the re­cent weath­er ad­vi­so­ry.