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Flash Flood caught persons off guard in St. Kitts

Published 14 October 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Fire Service responded to a couple of incidents of vehicles stuck in flood water….most serious of which was at College St ghaut. …vehicle got stuck and a bystander tried to help…he got pinned under the vehicle by the force of the water…..we were able to rescue him….the crew did a marvelous job….he was transferred to the JNF Hospital…injuries to his legs….the other two incidents,we’re not that serious….car got water logged in the Ocean Edge area….however no one was in the vehicle. …the third was a vehicle stuck on Pond Road. ..that was cleared without any issue

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Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport St. Kitts Meteorological Services
St. Christopher Air & Sea Port Authority P.O. Box 963
Basseterre
St. Kitts
Tel: 869 465 2749
Issued at: 7am
Present Weather: Fair skies with light passing shower.
Winds: A light breeze of 6mph from the North Northeast Temperature: 27°C/79°F Humidity: 91% Sea Level Pressure: Below normal at 1011.4mbs/29.86″ Sunrise: Tom 6:04 am Sunset: Today 5:51 pm
Weather Forecast Valid until 8am Tomorrow
Winds: Easterly to Southeasterly at 5 – 13mph.
Seas: Moderate with wave heights of 1.2 – 1.8 m or 4 – 6ft. Beach goers
should exercise caution.
Weather Forecast for St. Kitts & Nevis: Weathertoday: Occasionally cloudy with a 70 percent or high chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Weather tonight: Cloudy with likely showers and possible thunderstorms. Persons living in Flood prone areas should exercise extreme
caution.
Eastern Caribbean Forecast: Daytime heating along with low level convergence could generate cloudy spells with showers and possible afternoon thunderstorms across Hispaniola and Puerto Rico today. Meanwhile, an active tropical wave is expected to affect conditions across the rest of the islands from the Virgin Islands down to Trinidad and Tobago. Conditions across the area are expected to partly cloudy to cloudy with, at least, a moderate chance of showers and possible thunderstorms.

 

 

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