The heavy, persistent rains over Barbados on Friday and Saturday were not showers of blessing for Sonia Gill and her family at 1st Avenue Goodland, St Michael.
They undermined and wrecked the top casing of the drainage well in her yard, with a lot of earth being displaced. The stability of her house was also threatened.
“I get up this morning and [the area] break away all down by the fence now,” a bewildered Gill told the DAILY NATION. “The whole well is broken away. It broke now as far as my son’s house. That [area] is going to break away too . . . .”
The earth collapse caused the house to shift on its base and some of the blocks were washed away. Gill said she had to call in workmen to stabilize the house on Saturday.
Read the full story in today’s DAILY NATION.
A well of troubles
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