00:00several parts of East Trinidad remained underwater and several causeways remained
00:08impassable due to the passage of another tropical wave over the islands this is what
00:14guanapo river looks like in the vicinity of manuel congo at about 3 p.m. this afternoon
00:20it's a bit lower than what residents experienced earlier in the morning with the river breaching
00:26its banks lower down the country's natural irrigation system we make our way to karapu
00:32this is where residents formed a makeshift ferry service along the ferry street to take
00:38residents back and forth through the impassable parts for leela sumar a cpap workout flooding
00:45is a way of life she recalls being a young girl and passing through floods along with her grandfather
00:51she like many other fifty
01:21they also more odd years later recall when karen in 1975 was an operation flooding was
01:28not as bad now to get to his cpap job she braves the floodwaters and the undercurrents
01:35meanwhile roads remained impassable one vehicle is left stranded in lower karapu across and
01:59karani city representative mitra ramnoff says the situation is expected to worsen overnight
02:05here at the karani river what you will see is a breach in the embankment the water is now pouring this
02:12water with poor and flood chancel it will start with chancel road chancel road is already impassable at this time with this water that you're getting from chancel it will enter onto freeman road spring village it will go across into real spring from real spring
02:26north bals and then enter bamboo all this water is going on that side on the opposite side of the bank
02:32high up ibis gardens there is a breach in the embankment ibis garden
02:36high up ibis gardens has a breach in the embankment residents came out tried to rectify
02:44the breach in the embankment but unfortunately time ran out the embankment continued to open
02:51he's advising all to seek refuge on higher ground
02:55and the situation for the last eight hours i have continued to see the water rise
03:02um the ministry was here the corporation ceo was here the counselor was on the ground there's nothing
03:07we can do at this time besides prepare and just prepare for what is evacuation essentially this
03:14river continues to rise shortly this water will start to pour through here so tell me how how was
03:20it for the past hour or two or so the past hour two things have been worsening as everybody know with
03:26the weather it's a tropical wave five they catered for the weather is getting worse the river has risen
03:33significantly he recalls incidents in the past where persons chose to stay at home and overnight they
03:40needed to be evacuated because of rising flood waters
03:45this is the lowest spot that we have right now so the water has now breached and it is moving down
03:52right on the side here maybe less than a mile from here maybe half mile is freeman road or
03:59chanchel road what we call it that is already flooding this water is going from this side of the embankment
04:04and this side of the embankment this water is sucking across and going down into it the water that
04:10is pouring and going down that way is now going into the orange grove farmer's land so the farmers are
04:15now being affected the water that will pour through ivys that is now pouring through the washington cemetery
04:20will affect kelly village um saint elena madras and then tuck into the wymer and if the wymer tops up
04:29then warrenville will be cut off we saw that madras is already under water so the situation is just
04:35getting worse people need to at this time evacuate over shoot tomorrow rob narine tv sex news
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