The Photos were taken in the village of Montrose (Across from Starlite Drive-in) on the East Coast of Demerara as huge waves bashed the seawall sending water shooting skyward in excess of 20 feet at times. Standing watching Mother Nature flexing her muscles in this powerful manner was nothing short of frightening. Residents watched on in stunned amazement as huge waves crashed over the tiny wall that served as the sole barrier between them and the mighty Atlantic Ocean. The Ministry of Works and Hydraulics brought in an excavator to clear blocked trenches and to create additional waterways in a bid to ease the flooding but to no avail as just too much water was bashing over the seawalls.

By the time I left Montrose at about 5PM, there was about 2 feet of water in all of the bottom flats of this mainly fishing community. Montrose is one of the many villages along the East Coast severely affected by the terrible flood of 2005. This will simply add to their woes.

Question: If less than 10,000 gallons of water is splashing over the wall in Montrose every minute and you put a high flow submersible pump that has the capacity to pump say 20,000 gallons per minute thus throwing the water back over the wall, would it not stop the flooding???? BTW what ever happened to those three 70,000 gallons per minute storm pumps that the US and the Trinidadian governments gave us in 2005? Just suppose we had placed one of these 70,000 gallons pumps here in Montrose since the first night when the water started pounding the seawall, would it not have been possible to avoid the flooding and all that misery that came with it?

The photos below need no description as they tell their own stories. Bryan Mackintosh