Haiti Weather - Severe Flooding

 

The last couple of days we have had some heavy showers/thunderstorms. Rainy season is here! This photo was taken from my bedroom window. I didn't want to get wet in the rain taking a photo :) The water is pouring in streams off the tin roof of the outside kitchen. We collect the rainwater from the roof of the house into our cistern.

The following 2 photos were taken by Alterpresse to go along with their article. Glad we weren't driving when the storm hit :)

HAITI WEATHER - SEVERE FLOODING
(Alterpresse) -

Port-au-Prince - Major floods were recorded in the capital following torrential rains that lashed several parts of the country in the late afternoon of May 23, found AlterPresse.

Among the most affected areas include the Tabarre (northern edge) and areas of Petionville (periphery), including Freres and Pernier.

At Tabarre, streets were turned into rivers, hundreds of people took risks to cross stated an employee of AlterPresse.

Sewers and canals were vomiting muddy water and garbage, while huge traffic jams were caused by cars stopped in the water.

Tabarre offered the spectacle of hundreds of people, including children, youth, pregnant women, and the elderly sometimes aided by benefactors, trying to return to their home. This situation continued until very late.

The same situation was at Freres, where the Corail ravine flooded, throwing tons of silt on the roads, blocking traffic for several hours before an intervention by a team from the Public Works department.

At the entrance to Pernier, the access road has disappeared under a mountain of rubble from the Lima Ravine, which for several years has required a serious and urgent response.

The floods have not caused a loss of human life, according to preliminary findings, but people of Carradeux (Tabarre) complain that the water carried away everything in their houses. Many portals could not withstand the fury of the floods.

Humidity in the atmosphere will still cause the formation of showers and thunderstorms in some departments of the country, reports the National Meteorological Center (Cnm).

The Sud'Est, Grand Anse, Nippes, South, Central, North, West and Nord-East departments might see a very wet weekend