Storm

What a storm, what a breeze that blowed over our island. They say "God must be a Trini"and quite frankly I myself am starting to believe that.

Imagine no storm or severe weather warnings over the past few weeks from the (ODPM)Organization for disaster Preparedness and Management , resulting but not the cause of our capital city Port of Spain being under flood waters, on the outskirts of the city limits, landslips, rivers overflowing their banks citizens being marooned in their own homes, and tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to home and livestock.

Now this! Big media frenzy, warnings galore and people put into a panic by the same people who stood silent at the first wave of waters or signs thereof.

Friday October 29 2010 will forever be known as the day the Media, the Meteorological service,the Supermarkets all and sundry pulled a fast one over the unassuming eyes of the populace of Trinidad and Tobago. For it seems that all that was accomplished in all that panic was increased sales for those supermarket and chain store owners as bottled water, candles and the like rolled off the shelves and sat next to trolleys filled to the brim by shoppers who against their better judgment, spent outside their budgets....for what?

Are we then to trust the would be cries of the Met service on their next weather advisory, or is it a safe bet to say that we've got our own business and heart in our own hands?

Two days later our tropical depression, now tropical storm Tomas the nineteenth named storm of the already volatile hurricane season, is bearing down hard on the Leeward islands including Barbados, with the likelihood of it pounding Jamaica and of course Haiti with hurricane force winds.

That being said we are and should be grateful and I guess count our lucky stars that another tragedy may have yet been averted, and maybe yes God may just be a Trini.


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