Cleanliness averts flooding on Sister Islands
"The reason I would say that we had no major flooding of peoples businesses and homes and even in ghuts and alleyways is because we do a good job at keeping our community clean," said a well-known resident of Virgin Gorda who asked not to be named.
According to the woman, there are regular cleanup activities throughout the year by members of the community that is not spearheaded by government or government affiliated groups and organisations.
"We have people like Sasha Flax, Shereen Flax and many others who are always putting nastiness on blast and promoting cleanliness. The Rotarians and several others are always planning and executing cleanups and they must be credited for our safety during this storm."
Some landslides and erosions did occur but they were minimal. "With the rocks falling and some erosions to some roads were things out of our control but those too were not major."
Water supply issues
Another resident of the community highly complimented the contractors who executed the recent road works at Lee Road. "Even the new road development functioned good," the resident said.
However, it was reported that as a result of a long standing problem with the water treatment and distribution plant at North Sound, sections of that community continues to have a water supply problem which was elevated by the heavy rain and power outages.
On the other hand, residents of Anegada said that it was a usual quick runoff of water on their island with no damages "to cry about".
"Lots of water that's all we use to ... our water drains naturally," said one businessman.
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