"I think we were fortunate to experience the storm without much damage" - Hon. Vanterpool.
The raging sea yesterday afternoon and last night threatened to take over the shoreline fuelled by the strong winds of the storm. Part of the roadways became encumbered with debris from the sea and shore forcing a closure of the road for some time last evening and early this morning inconveniencing commuters for a period of time.
Workers from the Public Works Department were however quickly into action and were able to remove any existing debris during the afternoon but were forced to abandon this due to the fact that the sea kept pushing back the debris.
Speaking with this news site earlier today, Minister for Communications and Works, Honourable Mark Vanterpool said “I think we are fortunate to have experienced the storm without much damage.”
The Minister said the storm had passed more southerly than expected but conceded however, that there were some effects of it on the tail end.
“It caused us to close the road last evening and divert traffic in a different direction until this morning when we got it cleared up,” he said. “It was very dangerous.”
Hon. Vanterpool also said that water was coming over in different areas but it was just the area commonly referred to as the Bluff that became impassable and was cause for significant concern.
“From my point of view, in terms of the roads… the biggest challenge we had was around that way”.
He also said that the other area that usually comes under him whenever there is a storm is the ports. He was happy to report however, that the boats and barges did “reasonably well” under the circumstances.
He thought that the Public Works were very quick to get up and clean out the affected areas, starting this morning and getting things done by 8:00am.
“The Public Works performed well and we tried to keep persons informed through our Ministry”.
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