Cayo Suffers Worst Flooding from T.S. Sara

While most of the rain fell over Middle Caye, Hydrologist Tenielle Hendy explained today that the mountains to the south and west of Belize received the bulk of the rainfall. This is causing significant flooding out west. So, even though Middle Caye got a whopping seventeen inches of rain, it’s the Cayo District, which only received about four inches, that’s dealing with severe flooding.

 

Tenielle Hendy, Hydrologist

“For the central areas of the country mainly, we’re seeing flood warning in effect for those rivers. The Mopan, Belize River, Sibun River, going into the south, we’re now seeing the City River, the Bladen and Swayze branches of the Monkey River, and all those emanating off the eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains. We’re still seeing flooding and flood warning for those areas. What we do have still is the landslide threat. The landslide threat is positive for the next twenty-four hours, and it’s showing mainly in that Hummingbird Highway, Southern Highway into the south back west, towards the border with Guatemala is showing a positive indication for landslide threats. We have focused on the San Ignacio region, and like I said, it’s nine point six meters, so between twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-one feet of water we’re seeing there. The same we’re seeing now in the Mopan, where more between twelve to fifteen feet of water at the highest recorded extreme. For Crooked Tree, it’s increasing, but it’s not that it’s going to cover the causeway. We at this point, we do have reports of certain parts of the village being flooded at this time, but so far, based on the data that we’ve collected, San Ignacio has received the highest  flood levels that we have seen with the passage of Tropical Storm Sara.”