Flood warning remains as wet weather drifts northwest
(CNS): The very wet weather that has drenched the Cayman Islands this weekend is moving towards the northwest and should clear away from the area later this afternoon, but not before it douses the western side of Grand Cayman with another couple of inches of rain, according to the Cayman Islands National Weather Service.
Although the the severe weather advisory has been discontinued and the forecast is for improved conditions later today, Hazard Management and the police are urging drivers to be cautious as the rainy conditions will continue this morning and many areas of Grand Cayman remain flooded.
The area of abundant tropical moisture continued northward over the western Caribbean on Monday. Although it is expected to improve, today’s forecast is for periods of showers and thunder throughout the day. A decrease in cloudiness and showers is expected from early evening.
The RCIPS Traffic and Road Policing Unit warned motorists to slow down, increase the distance between themselves and the vehicles in front, and use their lights. Due to the flooding of the roadways, drivers should demonstrate courtesy and caution towards other road users, especially those walking or riding bicycles and children making their way to school, who are particularly vulnerable to passing vehicles.
“If every motorist demonstrates patience and drives to the conditions, we will reduce the number of collisions and serious incidents on our roadways,” the traffic police stated.
The CINWS 8am forecast called for cloudy to overcast skies with a 60% chance of showers and some thunder. Showers may become locally heavy at times. Flooding in low-lying areas is likely. Temperatures will rise to the upper 80’s °F. Winds will be southeast at 15 to 20 knots with higher gusts. Seas will be rough, with wave heights of 4 to 6 feet. Small craft should exercise caution over the open seas.
Tonight, there will be partly cloudy skies with a 30% chance of showers. Temperatures will fall to the upper 70’s °F. Winds will be southeast at 15 to 20 knots with higher gusts. Seas will be rough, with wave heights of 4 to 6 feet. Small craft should exercise caution over the open seas.
The outlook is for partly cloudy skies and isolated showers, moderate to fresh winds and rough seas through Thursday morning.
The Red Cross shelter is open and accepting residents.
For additional updates, check www.weather.gov.ky
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Driving in flooded areas is interactive natural selection.
Don’t feel bad for them; they are those who should not pass on their genes.
There is a new trend for drivers of cars and trucks to drive with hazard lights flashing. I suppose if you are not using your indicators might as well use them for something no one else seems to understand. Hazard lights are only for STATIONARY vehicles (road code 4.4)
Anyone notice how the new ‘tamper proof’ license plates were ripped off by floodwater. The plastic housing just makes them too heavy to be supported.
Yes! That’s been happening from day one. Junk design and along with the stupid all passenger cars with white plates confused now who is a tourist l/rental vs private car, wanting to be cautious of the rental! 😤
Another world class showing!
Let’s all now demand that the NRA do the following on an ongoing basis:
1. Install new drains throughout our islands but equally important, in the more prone flood areas ;
2. Clean ALL drains continuously throughout the year. Waiting for weather like what we have experienced in these last few days is putting even more strain on the NRA resources. Does the NRA not realise that? “An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”.
3. NRA should Repeat 1 and 2 until there is absolutely no issue with flooding throughout our islands and continue this method for the years to come.
FURTHERMORE,
we COLLECTIVELY DEMAND that the CPA stop approving these massive developments that no doubt contribute to the flooding now and times ahead of the neighbouring properties.
Cayman Islands Government stop putting greed ahead of the health and wellbeing of our citizens and residents. Remember the “Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil”.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Now that the government plans on gutting the National Conservation Act, the CPA will grant even more developments unchecked by anyone. Politicians will get filthy rich and all us suckers will spend our lives stuck in traffic and not being able to afford to buy or rent housing. And the sad part is that we’ll elect these same grifters because they’ll give us a pittance before the election. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
Hazard management should be sending out alerts directly to our phone in situations like this. Our government is so behind the times it’s embarassing.
*phone chirps*
ALERT: IT IS RAINING. NO, FOR REAL. LIKE REALLY, REALLY HARD. DON’T BELIEVE US? LOOK OUTSIDE. STAY OFF THE ROADS, BUT IF THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE PLEASE DO SENSIBLE SHIT, LIKE MAYBE NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO GIANT POOLS OF WATER THAT WEREN’T THERE YESTERDAY. FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE FOLLOW @COMMON_SENSE_345.
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Should have sent out warnings prior to the rain even beginning! Lots of newbies here who had no idea what was going on.
Suggestion … At times like these, consider putting a live blog on Hazard Management, or Radio Cayman, or other Government website, listing roads or areas of road to avoid if possible due to flooding.
And, listing any other key notifications that need to be relayed.
Easier if Cayman has single government online portal it knows it can look to for up-to-date official information.
If need be, send out a notice on Hazard Management’s messaging system telling us where to look for info.
Cayman naïve culture dictates not to talk about it, so it is not a problem.
4:26, Just like we don’t like to talk about the next Hurricane Ivan as if it is really never going to happen.
Just look at the Atlantic and Caribbean water temperatures now as compared to 2004 and one should be very worried.
I regret to say the chickens are going to come home to roost soon on flooding in a major way. We did not learn the flooding / water lessons of Ivan.
If they had said 0% chance is the only way you can say they are wrong and even then they can counter and say weather is constantly changing, if your residence is flooded blame planning and the contractor for lack of foresight or don’t care attitude
garbage forcasting and warnings again by cig….
The roads are flooded with the continuing deluge. What are we waiting for to close the schools? Come on act like you’re educated!
The schools were open because they jumped the gun earlier in the school year and canceled unnecessarily. Now they are scrambling to find enough days to be compliant with the law.
Da wa ya get.
Funny.. it’s almost as if removing all green spaces and concreting over everything causes intense flooding. Who would have guessed!? The overdevelopment will continue as long as we keep voting in the same buffoons.
Can we do winds in Miles per Hour instead of Knots?
No we can knot.
Multiply by 1.15
No.
No.
We are already forced to refer to the sea as the ocean, and dolphin as mahi mahi. Steel pan music has been foist upon us as local and we are being refused peaceable enjoyment of our beaches.
We are not surrendering anything else. Please adapt or leave.
If knots are not intuitive just think of them as MPH and you’ll be fine. The difference (1.15 mph = 1 knot, or nautical mile per hour) is so slight that it doesn’t matter if you don’t know. And for hurricanes and tropical storms they quote in MPH anyway. Knotts is useful for local boaters who are used to it and for the rest of us its just windy or really windy.
0-5 knots = no wind
5 – 15 knots = normal breeze
15 – 25 knots = strong wind (my boat stays home)
+25 knots = that’s nearly a tropical storm; watch out for when they start quoting in mph
40mph = Tropical Storm
Now just so long as they don’t ask us to parse what a ‘gale’ means, without a Beufort table handy. 🙂
How about m/s, can you get your head around that?
Here is why, according to SNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
God help us when a hurricane strikes. Thanks to lack of planning and all this overdevelopment we are an island buried in concrete and the worst flooding is yet to come.
Don’t worry. Some of our elected officials are getting filthy rich from all this development and that’s not because of a lack of planning on their part.
11:53, You are right. There will be hell to pay both economically and socially when the next big hurricane strikes here.
We learned nothing from Ivan and our politicians spent 20 years kissing the asses of developers.
Too many politicians with their heads in the sand will result in us paying a huge price for our total ignorance.
We will all be able to go after local politicians who sold us out when the big one comes. 🙏
You’ll still see predominantly dark or silver colored cars driving without lights on, and all the usual idiots with foglights on that actually dazzle oncoming motorists with the reflection off the slick roads. We’re surrounded by idiots. Take care everyone else!
I’m bedazzled by your use of the word “dazzle” in this way. We so seldom hear/read it used in that (quite correct) sense.
I’m also bemused as to why so many drivers are ignorant/discourteous/law-breaking idiots around here and befuddled as to why the police can’t/won’t do anything about the latter.
There’s also the Euro saloon crews, that have BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz etc. who drive around with front and rear fog lights on 24/7 because they just press every button on the dash and don’t have any understanding what they do. For what it’s worth, the rear foglight has an intensity like a brake light; so driving with it on (in non-foggy conditions) would get you stopped in the UK, and probably points on your license. Here, nothing, because nothing is enforced, and we reap those rewards with the havoc we see on the daily.
And the Police see them just like we do and do absolutely nothing about it!
National Weather Service forecast for today was a 40% chance of showers. Lol
They forgot to say “100 % chance of flooding”
That’s not how 40% works.
It means there’s 100% chance of rain in 40% of the area as a minimum.
In NHC we trust.