Please read our previous post, here, as it provides a background to the following:
The following is an update re Tropical Storm Nicole's effect on Jamaica:
- 11 persons are confirmed dead, 14 missing
- The National Works Agency (NWA) estimates that the damage caused by strong winds and flooding from Tropical Depression #16, which developed in Tropical Storm Nicole, could run into the billions of dollars.
- The ford connecting St. Andrew and St. Thomas at Harbour View in St. Andrew, was replaced by a dry-harbour bridge,yesterday, that now allows both heavy-duty vehicles and pedestrian traffic across.
- The roads in Barbican, Hope Pastures, Jacks Hill are still impassable, marooning the people in these communities.
- Members of the Hermitage community (in the vicinity of the Hermitage Dam), are concerned that their houses will be the next ones to give way into the major gully in the area...which is slowly being eroded.
(The NWA is the agency of the Government of Jamaica, that is responsible for the planning, building and maintenance of a reliable, safe and efficient main road network and flood control system in Jamaica).
(Both the NWA and Care Construction worked on the construction of this bridge).
A few of these homes are dangerously perched near the banks of the gully.
Gillian
Sources Include
1) National Works Agency (NWA) website, accessed October 2,2010
2) Television Jamaica's Nightly News at 10:30 p.m., October 1,2010
