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  • 1 year ago
Some parts of Penal remained under water today following Tuesdays heavy rainfall.

While in some areas homeowners began cleaning up their properties, others continue to wait for the flood water to recede.

Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was in Penal for this report.



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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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