Met Office predicts wind, rain and overcast skies today

THE Met Office at Piarco predicts the likelihood of a somewhat rainy Election Day today  with the possibility of heavily overcast skies and windy weather conditions.

The conditions took a toll at the weekend in various parts of Central and South Trinidad experiencing flood. Barrackpore was hardest hit when the Oropouche River burst its banks, causing water to rise to almost four feet at Rochard Douglas Road, Valley Line, Kanhai Road and New Colonial Road.  Hundreds of people were left marooned in their homes Saturday night. Villagers claimed they lost dozens of ducks and chickens. When Newsday toured the areas around mid-morning yesterday, Rochard Road, No One and Two, was impassable.

Rudranath Sankar’s Resturant and Bar’s was under two feet of water, but subsiding slowly. Sonnylal Maharaj, of Kanhai Road, told Newsday that he was forced to take his goats from their pen and onto the porch of his home.  Barrackpore police said several people returning around midnight from a party on the Gran Chemin, Moruga beach, were left stranded until 3 am in their vehicles along the Rochard Douglas Road.
Intermittent showers and heavily overcast skies yesterday, put a damper on last-lap Local Government  campaigning by political parties in San Fernando. A motorcade in the city was conducted amidst persistent rains, but was cut short by lightning and thunder.