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As flood­wa­ters crept in­to the Mafek­ing and Bris­tol com­mu­ni­ties yes­ter­day, the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion took swift ac­tion, send­ing its staff home ear­ly to pre­vent them from be­ing ma­rooned due to wors­en­ing con­di­tions.

By af­ter­noon, wa­ter lev­els edged dan­ger­ous­ly close to homes, co­in­cid­ing with an Or­ange Lev­el River­ine Alert from the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice. The alert warned of con­tin­ued rain­fall in­to to­day, like­ly caus­ing rivers to rise even fur­ther. Mean­while, street flood­ing in­ten­si­fied along the Cu­napo South­ern Main Road in Navet Vil­lage.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia by tele­phone, cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Ray­mond Co­zi­er ex­pressed con­cern about the speed at which flood­ing was de­vel­op­ing in parts of the re­gion. While ef­forts were on­go­ing, he feared that per­sis­tent rain­fall could soon es­ca­late in­to a crit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion.