AS THE 2020 hurricane season begins in another two days, residents of Cedar Avenue in Nightingale Grove, St Catherine, have reflected on some scary experiences they have had in the past when heavy rains pounded the country.
For years, Cedar Avenue residents have been hit hard by flood waters which flowed from a river behind their homes, whenever it rains heavily, causing extensive damage to furniture and household items.
When The Gleaner visited the community this week, the residents said that they have been spared heavy flooding in the last two years.
However, with meteorologists forecasting an active hurricane season this year, the residents are on edge that their fortunes might change soon.
Shenoris Parker, a resident of the area, said that the flooding that once affected the community had ceased for some time now because the water course had been redirected elsewhere, as a result of complaints from residents of a housing scheme nearby that was recently constructed.
