Six months af­ter dis­card­ing thou­sands of dol­lars’ worth of fur­ni­ture and house­hold items, 82-year-old David Matu­ra is brac­ing for an­oth­er year of se­vere flood­ing in Good­man Trace, Pe­nal.

Al­though Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen un­veiled an ur­gent flood mit­i­ga­tion plan this week, Matu­ra re­mains un­con­vinced that any­thing will be done in time. He not­ed the rainy sea­son had al­ready be­gun.

From Fri­day to Sun­day, T&T is ex­pect­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence cloudy, breezy weath­er with light to mod­er­ate show­ers due to ITCZ ac­tiv­i­ty. There is a medi­um chance of heav­ier show­ers or thun­der­storms, es­pe­cial­ly on Sat­ur­day, which may cause gusty winds and street flood­ing.