Flooding Event 1993

Five persons died as between 60 and 100 mm of rain pelted the northwest and west of Trinidad shortly after noon on the 5th October 1993. The rains fell for two hours swelling rivers, causing landslides, blocking roads and felling trees." This brief torrential rain triggered heavy flooding and mudslides and affected a region of 1,170km ². Ten persons were left homeless as a result of the flooding event and an estimated 70,000 USD in damage occurred.

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Tropical Storm Bret 1993

ON the 7th August 1993 Tropical Storm Bret passed Trinidad and Tobago with winds of 44 km/hr and dumping 111mm of Rainfall. Rains and winds caused Power cuts. In the Southern end of Tobago and Low-Lying Central Trinidad some houses suffered minor damage due to flooding and falling of trees. There were no reports of serious casualties or damage on the two-island nation, but Army troops were in downtown Port-Of-Spain apparently to prevent looting. Bret knocked out power to about 35,000 residents in the northeast villages of Balandra and Toco.

Tropical Storm Arthur 1990

Arthur formed as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa on 18 July 1990. A maximum flight level wind speed of 47 mph just northeast of the center at an altitude of 1500 foot and a maximum surface wind of 46 mph was estimated, along with 1005 mb surface pressure. This data in combination with satellite intensity estimated were the bases for upgrading the depression to Tropical Storm Arthur. Arthur, which was the second tropical storm of the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season on the 25th July 1990, hit both the island of Tobago and Grenada.

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