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Flood victim
Residents using buckets and other means to remove water from from their dwellings following flood rains.
Duckenfield Sugar Company Works Yard residents
"Can wi sponge dry? Duckenfield Sugar Company works yard residents trying to dry their bedding which was soaked by last week's flood waters when eight rivers and some 41 supporting gullies were in spate, sending up to eleven feet of water through…
Duckenfield Sugar Company Works Yard residents
"Two Works Yard housewives trying to wash out the mud and excrement from their clothes."
Railway Lane Beach, Montego Bay
"Public Assistant Officer Evelyn Pugh (second from right, front row) speaking with one of the fishermen residing at Railway Lane Beach. This flood victim lost his fishing boat during the floods on Thursday night. The capsized house to the right was…
Railway Lane Beach, Montego Bay
"Citizens of Railway Lane, Montego Bay and Pensions and Security Minister Howard Cooke (left, wearing tie) test the strength of a rope used to secure this damaged house which was flooded when the Barnett River overflooded its banks on Thursday night.…
Sterling Castle (St. Andrew)
"This looks like a house afloat, doesn't it? What happens when it rains: Nice house. Some backyard. Looking from the rear at the home of the Byron Barnetts in Sterling Castle, upper St. Andrew. This was Thursday and the water level was much lower…
Sirgany, Eastern Kingston
"This unfinished house at Sirgany Drive was partially destroyed by raging gully water yesterday."
