On the night of Friday 31 August/Saturday 1 September, 2007, “Tropical Depression Six” passed from the open Atlantic over the southern Caribbean, dumping heavy rain on the islands of Grenada, Tobago, and Trinidad. The result: flooding, landslides, trees blown down, and some damage to buildings. (On Friday Francomenz posted regular updates on the depression’s progress: 1 [1], 2 [2], 3 [3].)
Blogger Attillah Springer of Four Fingers and a Thumb [4] — who posts photos at Flickr under the name tillahwillah [5] — was in Port of Spain (the capital of Trinidad and Tobago) very early on Saturday morning, and took a series of photos of the downtown area under several inches of water.
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St. Vincent Street, Port of Spain, just outside the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago; before dawn, Saturday 1 September, 2007.
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The southern side of Independence Square, Port of Spain; 1 September, 2007. Springer notes that this used to be called Marine Square — “maybe they should call it that again”.
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“Caution, Work in Progress” reads this sign knocked over by floodwater; 1 September, 2007. Springer’s caption: “Yes, Port of Spain is a work in progress. Or regress?”
Later Saturday morning, the weather phenomenon was reclassified as a tropical storm, and on 2 September was upgraded to hurricane status. Hurricane Felix [9], the second hurricane of the 2007 season, having passed just north of the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, is now heading for Belize and Honduras.