Un­prece­dent­ed flood­ing brought mis­ery to dozens of fam­i­lies along Ack­bar Road, Char­lieville, as heavy rains in­un­dat­ed homes and dis­rupt­ed Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions across Cen­tral Trinidad.

Res­i­dents spent much of yes­ter­day clean­ing up af­ter near­ly two hours of tor­ren­tial rain­fall trig­gered flash flood­ing that left streets sub­merged and prop­er­ties dam­aged.

Coun­cil­lor for the area, Adri­an Ali, along with Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ch­agua­nas West, Dr Col­in Go­sine, and Ch­agua­nas May­or, Faaiq Mo­hammed, were on the ground as­sess­ing the dam­age and meet­ing af­fect­ed res­i­dents.