Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Less than 24 hours af­ter tor­na­do-like winds tore through sec­tions of West­moor­ings North and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties, the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment con­firmed that cleanup and restora­tion works were com­plet­ed and pow­er was re­stored to near­ly all af­fect­ed house­holds.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen said as­sess­ments by the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion’s (DM­BC) Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit de­ter­mined that 16 homes were af­fect­ed by the un­usu­al weath­er event on Tues­day, which caused to­tal roof loss in some cas­es and par­tial struc­tur­al dam­age in oth­ers.