The Guyana Flood Website

Photos below are from Thursday January 20th and earlier.

The boat was taken down to the back of the UG area	This fella turned his black water tank into a boat UG road	Dane DeNobrega's wrecker at work at 11am along UG road	Water and more water everywhere. Turkeyen. Jan 23rd 2005	This truck brought in this boat at 11am, Thursday 20th

  Report for Wednesday the 19th of January 

 Hello Visitors, we are now at Wednesday the 19th and the water has not dropped in the area where I live. I'm located at Turkeyen on the East Coast, just about 4 miles from Georgetown. To the east of me is Cummings Lodge and I talked to a resident from there yesterday and he told me that there is some some five feet of water in that area, Guyanese have lost millions of dollars, I saw at least 8 new cars being pushed out from my area to get them to higher ground, the engines were totally covered in water, that means that those vehicles would have to get serious mechanical repairs. People from further up on the East Coast in places like Lusignan, Buxton, Annsgrove are also under 3 to 5 feet of water. The five photos below were taken at 6.30 am Wednesday January 19th 2005   

This is looking north east, only really serious 4x4's can pass here now	This looking north west, the water is getting really dirty now	This is looking south, UG is in this direction	This is the level at the gate, still the same as yesterday. Jan19th	The fellas at Greenhouse have been working around the clock to keep the water out of the Hotel
Sign of the times? We saw this boat passing going to the University of Guyana at 11am	Someone said that this was the Presidential survey team. Notice the state of the art propulsion system?	Embassy officials taking this Audi to higher ground	Guiding this truck in to fetch her car out, this lady braves the water	A truck brought in about 20 of these rafts and after we saw persons with them
Sand bags heading to Mr. Douglas's house. maybe a bit too late	These 3 vehicles had to be pulled out by the truck from Turkeyen Q	can you imagine the damage that has been done to this nice little car?	In case of too much water, this driver walked equipped with raft	This family  making their way out of the Cummings Lodge area along the UG road
Is this fella at the  Splashmins resort?	Nope, he is right outside of our house at Turkeyen.	A Toyota Land Cruiser pulls this Cherokee Jeep

January 20th 2005: Guyana has a national crisis on its hands, we has been experiencing really heavy rainfalls over the last couple of days. I live on the East Coast at Turkeyen quite near the CARICOM Complex and we are presently under some 2 to 3 feet of water depending on what part of the house or yard that you stand on. I was able to drive the car out on Saturday to go to Georgetown, on Monday we woke up with ankle deep water but that became knee deep by midday and has been rising ever since. I visited the pumping station at Lilliendaal and was shocked to see the quite small amount of water that was being pumped out, we have photos below and on the other pages, you will see for yourself.

 Special note: From time to time you will see photos of the blue car, the fence and the gate, we are using these 3 objects as mark points for the water level.

Old Betsy taken to slightly higher ground	The Lilliendaal pumping station	This is the small quantity of water being pumped at Lilliendaal	A closer look at the minute water flow	This Helicopter made a crash landing on the seawalls

  Here some some are random photos taken at around 11.45am Tuesday 18th Jan 

Below some new photos as the flood unfolds, the water is rising by the minute and it is indeed becoming very frightening. Something people don't really understand including the people who govern this country, we live in a large pool, the seawalls which keeps the sea water out is the side of the pool, if this rain keeps up and it will, then we can surely expect higher floodwaters here on the East Coast. The water that has taken over our yard is quite black and I'm quite sure that there is some form of overtopping on the conservancy.

The Conservancy that you will hear mention from time to time of is a man made canal dug by slaves during the rule of the Dutch some two hundred year ago, it runs all the way from Mahaica and ends up at the Land Of Canaan 5 door sluice where the opening of the sluice regulates the quantity of water that is kept for storing to service Guysuco's cane fields and farms that are parallel to this very conservancy. The Lama Canal is an extension of the conservancy and that where Georgetown gets its water supply. The conservancy gets its water supply from rainfall that is brought down from the highlands such as Timehri and beyond, many of the small creeks that you see on the Linden Highway actuality ends up in the conservancy. so when there is heavy rainfall in the mountains, the highlands and on the coastal belt, the conservancy water level rises and the 5 door sluice then releases the excess water into the Demerara river. There is also a second sluice at Mahaica that is used to release excess water from the conservancy but into the Mahaica river/creek instead.

Mon 17 January	Mon 17 January	Mon 17 January	Tuesday18- 8am	Monday 17th	Tuesday Jan18

This last row of photos shows how the water moved up in just 2 hours on Jan 17th, check the position of the lock on the gate to gauge the water level