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Yallahs flooding
"Yallahs fording flooded during October 1974 flood rains."
Yallahs fording
"Where is the road? This is the Yallahs River in spate yesterday - a day and a half after Tuesday's torrential showers. The fording, which normally enable the scores of vehicles plying between Kingston and St. Thomas and through the Portland, is…
Zaidie Gardens
"Circle shows Sandy Gully main very near to Zaidie Gardens where paved connection should be effected."
Trafalgar Road
"One of the many vehicles which was stranded in the heavy rains which pounded the island yesterday. This jeep was stalled along the Trafalgar Road near the spot where a woman drowned in a recent downpour."
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…
Spanish Town Road
"Washed out along the Spanish Town Road near Six Miles."
Borobridge and Aenon Town
"Flood rains - the fallen trees in the foreground are mute testimony to the extensive damage caused by the recent flood rains in Clarendon and St. Ann. Residents of Borobridge, St. Ann (on right) can only shout to those in Aenon Town, Clarendon…
Sirgany, Eastern Kingston
"The police evacuate residents of Sirgany Beach Housing Scheme in Eastern Kingston.
Sirgany, Eastern Kingston
"This unfinished house at Sirgany Drive was partially destroyed by raging gully water yesterday."
Sirgany Drive (Kingston)
"Wet existence: Number 14 Sirgany Drive during a short full in Tuesday's heavy showers. Some of the occupants of the home during yesterday and the previous night spent much time syphoning out dirty silty water that flowed between and under their…