And in More Tomorrow Village, the residents are trapped inside, unable to go to work or school. Both roads leading out of the village are inundated with floodwaters - as deep as 4 feet in some parts. NEMO reportedly tried to enter, but was forced to turn back around. The villagers worry that if there is an emergency, they will not be able to get out. We spoke with the chairman today via phone.
Voice of: Michael Myvette, Chairman, More Tomorrow Village
"We have, for the past three, four years, right now, and we have no access to back and forth right now, because the two roads are flood out. So if we get into an emergency or something like that, I don't know, we are going to make it out because no vehicle can't move nowhere right now from our community. And, yes, we got flood, some people took shelter, a couple of families, but NEMO assisted those people, but when you look at it, the whole community got trapped by the flood, because nobody can move nowhere to buy or nothing."
"So we just have to wait until the water go down, so that people can do what they have to do. We have the farm belt, people farms their crops went down too, so nobody can reach the farm right now due to the flood."
"So as soon the water starts to go down, then people will go and see damage and the losses they got with the flood. And after that, then so we are getting in touch with the agriculture department, see they will come and assist we the farmers."
"Right now, the water is about four feet, still high, so that no vehicle can come back and forth through that. They say that it's still high, because NEMO was trying to come in today, and they say the vehicle can't make it, so once they are telling you that, that's means the water is still high, because more than one spot of the road the water is."
"This morning, the vehicle that come to take a school children to go to high school, they had to turn back, because the children cannot cross to go to the school."
Reporter
"Do you feel like your village is being left out or abandoned in a way?"
Voice of: Michael Myvette, Chairman, More Tomorrow Village
"Well, I would say, in one way, yes, because then only the people in the shelter they recognize, you know, and it's like what we are saying that once we get trapped, it's the whole community suffering right now, and not just the people in the shelter."
"If assistance should come through and we supposed to ask, the first thing we would like to ask are for food items, you know, because normally, that is what people do, they go out shopping to maintain their family."
Myvette estimates that it will be at least 3 days before the water recedes and they will be able to make it to their farms - if it doesn't rain again.
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