The Guyana Flood Website 

  Report for Friday, February 4th, 2005

The newspapers today said that the flood water should be gone in two weeks time providing that the rain eases up, two more weeks of pure agony for tired and frustrated residents of the East Coast. Two more weeks of dwelling in the dirty polluted floodwater that now has become life threatening over the last week. With some six persons dying from what is believed to be deadly water borne disease Leptospirosis. The reality of death only sinks when it surrounds your every move, just where Leptospirosis is lurking to claim its next victim is anyone's guess. I saw kids walking on the road in Success South without any shoes on, these are the same road that were flooded just a few days ago and they could possibly be breeding grounds for scores of other water borne diseases that simply love the exact conditions that exist all along the East Coast. Guyana is in a serious crisis and residents must know of the danger that lies in every pool of water that they walk through. There are drugs that should be taken to ward off possible infections and these drugs must be made available to each and every resident of the flooded out areas in  order to protect them from certain death.

I traveled up the East Coast once more today and saw dead dogs and piles of rubbish all over the place. Even though the state radio has been announcing all week that a massive cleanup operation  is planned to rid the flooded villages of the tons of garage floating around, I am yet to see any serious attempt being made to do so even as we compete three weeks of this devastating flood.

Carmichael Street	Camp Street Avenue	Main Street Avenue	The St Georges Cathedral	Le Meridian Pegasus Hotel
Bishops High School	Happy Acres still flooded out.	The Success market & road	Flooded road in Courabane Park Lusignan	No water to float in Courabane Park Lusignan
Lots of water to leave before life can return to normal	This guy was finally able to bring his car down from the ramp, Lusignan South	Flooded out homes in Lusignan South	The table will give you an idea of the height of the water in this yard	After 3 weeks the road are still flooded out
Heavy duty vehicles in Courabane Park	That is not grass, its leaves/moss floating around	Puppy comes out to see who's passing	Bridges going to homes lined Lusignan	Just a lot of water everywhere
Just too much water here just too long	Some roads were usable to some extent	The glum look on Pops face told of the hardship this flood brought	House in Courabane park still under floodwater	More water everywhere you look
This woman complained bitterly about the water damage to her bottom flat apartment	IEL workers setting up a pump to help with the floodwater at Good Hope	Former Grasstrack champ Jerry Max Goveia in blue t-shirt heads the IEL team	Heading east to Lusignan, water and more water	This learning center will be closed for a while yet
Another business closed because of the flooding	Lusignan's PPP cup still standing after 3 weeks	Holding onto each other for better footing	Braving the floodwater to get to the main road	Caricom Auto Sales still flooded out
Lusignan North with loads of floodwater even after 3 weeks	More makeshift bridges to avoid the dirty water	A flooded out road in Lusignan	Wearing shades so that he would not see much of the depressing floodwater	Lusignan North residents still have to use boats to get to the main road
The guys from the vulcanising shop with nothing else to do	The cemetery outside of Triumph village	Rahamans will be closed for a while longer, much longer	Even this Pathfinder would not dare to go further	father and son out for a boat ride in Lusignan
Lusignan North hard hit by this savage flood	Not much drop in this water at Lusignan South	The sad look on this villager's face is seen all over the East Coast	Sailing Styrofoam to get around	Buxton still has as much floodwater as the last 5 days and more
A side dam in Buxton	Yards still under 2 feet of water in Buxton	This lad from Buxton sailed out in his fridge boat/contraption	The scene at Buxton this afternoon	Peace and love and no more flooding please, my Rastafarian friend told me
The Hamilton Gas station in Buxton	Welcome to Waterland should be added to this poster in Buxton	Playfully clutching to his brother to avoid falling off this raft in Buxton	Annandale South is still swamplands	A flooded out Annandale North road
This pretty girl pondering how to get home without soaking her clothes	Moms holding the raft steady as her siblings jumps off to dry land	Banks Beer umbrellas on the East Coast roadside	A boat heading into Lusignan North, the road is hidden under the water	The cinema at Good Hope was still flooded out this afternoon
Hey Nan, your house is still flooded out	Sailing past houses at Good Hope North	Some of the roads in Success had dried off	The Sun City Chinese restaurant was open for business in Success	This barefooted kid pulling his truck on land that was covered with filthy floodwater just days ago
The BM Soat/ HN Tony kitchen still providing hot meals to villagers at Montrose	The road into Better Hope North without the boats that lined here a few days ago	A Better Hope road a bit drier today	Trying to put the pieces back together to restart business	Shameeza wisely wore long boots to protect herself from possible water borne diseases.
Still a lot of floodwater move off	Water filled road in Better Hope	Some roads still had water in Better Hope North	The Better Hope North Hindu Temple	This Better Hope resident wearing long boots welcomes her family home
this boat now lies abandoned in Better Hope North	More water yet to move off	Water on the road out of Better Hope North	The Georgetown Public Hospital emergency entrance	Persons waiting to get medical help, many were from the East Coast