Some water restored to flood-hit East Coast areas

Air bed? Montrose resident Troy Persaud was forced to tie his bed to the beams of his roof following the flooding of the area as a result of spring tides late last week. He said that he plans to keep it up there until the area has been cleaned and this waSome amount of running water was restored to residents of North Better Hope and North Vryheid’s Lust and they continued their cleanup yesterday following the swamping of the area by the spring tides last weekend.

A check in the area yesterday revealed that residents were receiving some amount of water through their taps and some were utilizing pumps to ‘draw’ the water. Residents said that some disinfectant was also distributed in the area yesterday. They had pleaded for this on Sunday when this newspaper spoke with them.