00:00Cleanup efforts began in some homes in and around Pinal on Thursday following
00:05severe flooding. But for many others, road and houses remained partially
00:10submerged. On some roads, only vans and trucks could pass, while some homes
00:16remained surrounded by flood water like here on Clark Road or Batchia Trace. Some
00:21families have relocated temporarily to the homes of relatives and friends
00:26waiting out the water.
00:50Along Batchia Trace, a couple of young men used an inflatable boat to shuttle
00:55food and other supplies to residents unable to make it across.
01:09Pinal resident, 70-year-old Sooklal Seulal says at his age, he's seen this far too many times
01:17and is fed up of inaction by the authorities to effect real change in communities like his.
01:25Always after. Everything we have, we check. Everything we had on Thursday,
01:31you know, my children will leave here because of this flood.
01:36They leave, we pray to God, everything they have, and the binding every time and destroying.
01:41Flood destroy everything. All I want to do is clean the river.
01:45You know, clean the river and make life easy for people, you know what I'm saying?
01:51Another resident says people are part of the problem.
01:56He encouraged individuals to refrain from improperly disposing their garbage.
02:07Global warming is a natural thing. We can't, we can't prevent this, right? We could do something
02:13to mitigate it, but we can't prevent it. It's things like that people have to stop dumping
02:18their rubbish indiscriminately. Cindy Raghubandh Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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