Flooding is our fault

I get great joy at seeing people walking around knee deep in brown water, and seeing various household items equally immersed. I enjoy their comments to the news crews when the victims say things like — “And nobody ‘ent helping we; we suffering and nobody listening...”

You see, these victims of heavy rainfall and consequent flooding simply will not face the fact that they are to blame for their plight. They are the ones who clog up the rivers with derelict vehicles, tyres, refrigerators, rotting vegetation etc.

They should have been harassing various councillors, mayors and Parliamentary representatives to clean the rivers, fix bridges and generally undertake maintenance work during the dry season.

They are the ones who simply ignore the fact that the flooding starts in the mountains, and the denuding of the hills occurs when people burn large areas illegally to build, plant food, and possibly marijuana.

They are the ones who will not demonstrate outside Whitehall to demand the use of the Green Fund to replant the hillsides. The Fund has grown to nearly $700 million and we are told that it just sits there, growing. Or has it been frittered away on CEPEP and URP projects?

All the predictions by weather experts indicate that the hurricane season is going to worsen in the future, possibly because of global warming.

So it looks like I will have years of mirth and merriment ahead of me to look on gleefully at the terrible discomfort of people who bring misery and suffering on themselves.

GLENN ROSE

St Clair