Heavy rains damage Portland's roads

Sections of  Portland have been severely affected by recent heavy rains.
    
Numerous persons, including students, were marooned at Port Antonio High School on Tuesday evening, due to flooding. The Principal, Basil Graham, told RJR News that some of the offices and classrooms were flooded.
    
Only grades ten and eleven students were accommodated at the school today as clean up activities are in progress.  
    
Personnel from the Port Antonio Fire Station also had to rescue a man in Boundbrook after his car was washed away by flood waters.
    
The rain caused a major breakaway on the road between Tom’s Hope and Fellowship in the Rio Grande Valley. The National Works Agency (NWA) has advised that this road, which has been reduced to single lane traffic, is now accessible only to small vehicles, and must not be used by heavy vehicles.
   
Roads in Norwich Heights, Claverty Cottage and Boundbrook have also been damaged.
                                               
The NWA has further advised that a team is clearing silt which washed onto  that section of  the North Coast Highway leading from Boundbrook to Snow Hill in Port Antonio. 
   
Land slippages have been reported in other parts of  Portland. According to the NWA, however, vehicular traffic is not being affected.