Af­ter days of be­ing con­fined in­doors, some el­der­ly res­i­dents of Debe were fi­nal­ly able to step in­to their yards as flood­wa­ters be­gan to re­cede in parts of south Trinidad af­fect­ed by last week’s se­vere weath­er.

De­spite the re­cent clear­ing of a ma­jor wa­ter­way in the com­mu­ni­ty, Seu­radge Trace res­i­dents still ex­pe­ri­enced ap­prox­i­mate­ly five feet of flood­wa­ter rush­ing through their street and in­to their yards.

Now that the wa­ters had gone down, Satie Beepath was able to pull on her gar­den boots and sweep out her back shed.