The Guyana Flood Website

 Report for Friday January 21st

Because of the numerous requests coming into the website to see what was happening in Georgetown, we took a drive to the capital city to assess the situation there, we found that there were some streets that were flooded and some homes had water in their yards and bottom flats. I spoke to my friend Terrence Clarke who lives in Haley Street and he said that his yard was still under water, my sister who lives in South Ruimveldt still has some 12 inches of water in the bottom flat of her house, her losses is in the thousands of dollars since all of her furniture and carpeting was damaged. This is the story of almost everyone with bottom flat houses in Georgetown and on the East Coast

We returned to the East Coast and was greeted with even more flooding than was visible yesterday. Parts of the embankment highway which was higher than the floodwater yesterday, was totally submerged this afternoon at around 5.30PM. The look of desperation was in the eyes of everyone that we passed on the wet and cold road. Those with family in Georgetown have already moved there but not every was as fortunate and spending another night in the floodwaters just seemed too much for them. The apartment of my colleague Shiek Yassen is under some 3 feet of water in Ogle and he also lost everything that he had there since he had no chance to move his belongings to higher ground when the floodwater crept up on him during the wee hours of Sunday night. Sadly this water will not be going away for a long time and hope for betterment is slowly disappearing unlike the floodwaters. Bryan Mackintosh

A shot of Garnett St, close to Vlissengen Road	Looking east along Garnett St	A side road along Vlissengen Road	D'Andrade St	DaSilva St
Demerara Cricket Club ground in Queenstown	Alberttown	CH4 building	Alberttown	Alberttown
Queenstown	Queenstown	Queenstown	New Market St, outside of the Georgetown Hospital	The entrance of the Public Hospital
A partially flooded road in Alberttown	The squatting houses along Lamaha St	The Guyana Defense Force ground under water	David St Kitty	This store on David St Kitty was selling these rafts
A look east up David St Kitty	This fella along David St Kitty was out testing his makeshift raft.	Looking east up the Embankment highway, its hard to imagine that just 3 miles away that hell is breaking loose.	The cows heading for higher ground onto the seawall on the East Coast highway	The US Ambassadors house on the East Coast was also affected
looking into Atlantic Ville from the East Coast Highway	Atlantic Ville was under at least 3 feet of water	Atlantic Ville or Atlantis?	A flooded path in Ogle just off the main highway	The Hideout under water
Along the Ogle Road leading to the airport	Ogle airstrip road	Ogle airstrip road	A 4x4 coming out of the Ogle airstrip road	To the right of the Ogle airstrip road
Our navigator Camille and Sheik Yassen who drove us all day taking a break	Looking north along the Ogle airstrip road	This is the sight that greeted us as we approached Industry	A flooded home on the Industry embankment highway	This water was not here yesterday when we passed yesterday (Industry)
Hanging on to what little hope is left.	The embankment highway in the vicinity of Cummings-lodge	The embankment highway in the vicinity of Cummings-lodge	More water at this school turned health center	Vehicles slowly making their way on the embankment highway
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The road that leads to the University of Guyana	This was where the water level was when I left my home at 1.30pm