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While South Trinidad has so far avoid­ed ma­jor flood­ing de­spite per­sis­tent heavy show­ers yes­ter­day, lo­cal gov­ern­ment au­thor­i­ties re­main on high alert as more rain­fall is ex­pect­ed.

On Tues­day, the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, warn­ing of se­vere con­di­tions. The fore­cast in­clud­ed iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms, with the risk of street flood­ing and land­slides, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ar­eas with al­ready sat­u­rat­ed soils. Al­though ma­jor rivers were con­tained and be­low medi­um ca­pac­i­ty, the TTMS warned that wa­ter lev­els could rise quick­ly if in­tense rain­fall per­sist­ed.

By mid­day, street-lev­el flood­ing had al­ready af­fect­ed sev­er­al ar­eas in Pe­nal, in­clud­ing Clarke Road, Rochard Road, and Pe­nal Rock Road, prompt­ing the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) to dis­trib­ute sand­bags to res­i­dents. Mo­torists al­so re­port­ed flood­ing in Syne Vil­lage and Lowkie Trace, Pe­nal.