With today's rain having no place to go in the Katrina-soaked ground, some areas of Nassau flooded quite easily. I blew an AC fuse in my jeep this afternoon going through one section at the entrance/exit of a certain shopping center "out east".

It was one of those moments when ya think that the puddle isn't that deep and next thing ya know, the water halfway up ya car door. Someone could make some serious money by providing an anti-flooding service: Simply buy one of those water/sewer pumping trucks, drive over to the flooded place, suck all that water up and deposit it in a water treatment pond/tank somewhere else. Or better yet, hook up a few hundred meters of pvc pipe (with a filter on the end) to a water pump and flick the switch on every time it rains so that the water doesnt have time to collect. Just make sure that the other side of the pump leads to a place that doesn't create another "flooding" problem.

And to think we have water shortages here in Nassau... :rolleyes:

U should have been to COB, it was a mess. Its already swampy land, Big Pond is there, and the land in COB cant hold water as it stands.

They spent 25k on a artificial lake/pond thing, hoping the water would run off somewhere. I'm not saying that was the reason for the flooding at COB, but now when it rains, the grass is now about 9+ inches under water. And where the water came up moderately it looks like it comes up even higher. Now I'm no expert on drainage but I dont think adding water lessens flooding.

I went to the student government and ask them about the drainage thing. And I also found out that COB has a lecturer with a Phd. who is an expert on drainage systems. We really need an insland wide drainage system.

I can only imagine those people in Pinewood right now. BTW, is the archipelago at or below sea level. Because in either of these cases, we need to put some kind of system in place to prevent wide spread flooding.