meanwhile the inclement weather has left several communities underwater and multiple roads
impossible we now take you to some scenes across the island we begin in the south of the island
no parish was spared from the onslaught of heavy rains across the island multiple bridges and
homes battered by the heavy downpour in saint catherine several communities were flooded
and roads left impossible fairview on the outskirts of the parish capital spanish stone
first responders could be seen making their way through the rising waters a rescue mission for
persons stuck on the road not even this police car was able to make it through the water
this resident says it's not the first time he's experiencing this issue
we have flooding my house flood every whole sunday back where the crescent is is also flooded
the only solution we have to this is for them to rectify the pan
as long as the pan full we are going to flood on seville meadows in spanish town also took a hit
water from an adjacent drain made it hard to tell where the road started which takes us to
the nearby st john's road our newsroom obtained footage of multiple vehicles stuck along the road
the occupants of this taxi narrowly escaped as the vehicle was swept into a ditch by the waters
it's a similar store in the neighboring parish of clarendon these shots from a top of the mapen
bridge show the raging waters of the rio minno the same water would make its way through various
communities manchester anderson elizabeth also had their fair share of flood waters
the junction fabricate had to assist two families to get to their homes as flood waters rendered
them inaccessible the communities of duff house alligator pond and sections of junction
were all underwater there were also reports of flooding in sections of saint anne and negril
but back to the corporate area there weren't many surprises sections of spanish down road
and other areas known to experience flooding during heavy rains lived up to expectation
and as we reported the rains caused several blocked roads we're now joined by communications
manager at the national works agency stephen shaw mr shah thank you so much for joining us
now the office of disaster preparedness and emergency management management earlier this
evening said that the bogwork gorge is closed uh due to the bad weather what's the latest mr shah
it continues to be to be closed rashaan good evening to you and your viewers as is the
road in clarendon which is in antone the road from marco to frank field
we are now watching very carefully the bulba area as a continuous terrain
and the heavy ciliation or deposit in the chalky river is now a major concern to us as the
river has actually breached its embankment and there's a nearby road which i i believe
is wheeze road where persons actually live that era is now experiencing some of that storm water
so have crews already been dispatched to these communities to clear any of uh the roadblocks
hello yeah mr shaw are you still there yes i'm here yeah so have crews uh already been
dispatched to some of these areas to clear some of the roads yes we have crews that have we have
dispatched in in all the areas we have received uh reports from at least 10 of these 14 crashes
we have been able to respond and reopen at least singling some roads because it's a combination of
flooding washed down silt falling rocks and downed trees that would have been impacting
several of these corridors but we have been able to do to respond uh without putting
our teams or our nwa staffers or the team members from private entities
uh at risk what are some of those roads that have now been reduced to single lane
sorry you're breaking up you mentioned a short while ago that some roads have been reduced to
single lanes uh what are some of those roads so for example in saint catherine they've rolled
from um daniel bridge to tolo we have been able to to get a single in access stay over in
saint elizabeth the holland bamboo road the major corridor that was impossible we have managed to
remove some of the the impediments so to that from lakovia to mountainside and from
lakovia to vauxhall these are some of the areas that we have been able to to to treat with and
of course in saint andrew um we have been able to begin access to sections of new west bank uh
flamsted and those areas all right thank you so much mr shaw that was the communications
manager at the national works agency stephen shaw giving us an update on the roads across the island