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"Flood hero: Trevor Donan of Water Works, Westmoreland (3rd from left) stands with some of his neighbours whom he rescued during the June 12 flood rains. Trevor saved nine members of one household and three in another. From left are Beverly…

"Jamaica Red Cross Volunteers, members of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the Denham Town Secondary School sorting donations of clothing to be sent to flood victims in Western Jamaica. Scene was at the Red Cross Headquarters, 76…

"Right: Eighty year old Helen Grant tells of her plight on Thursday night. Thick mud has covered the floor of her house in the background."

"Where are we going to sleep tonight? A group of citizens from the McGregor Gully area ask. As a result of flooding they were unable to enter their homes which were under water last night."

"In the midst of grief: Kingston Mayor Arthur Jones finds time for a joke in the midst of serious business when he visited 33 1/2 Waltham Park Road where flood waters did extensive damage."

A woman stoops and looks out at the water flowing through the nearby gully.

"The homeless couple: Charlton Mitchell, 30, and his common-law-wife Yvonne Grant, 19, with their 20-month-old son, Cleveland. They lost their two-apartment timber house during the September 18 downpour when the raging Pen Gully overflowed its banks…

"Lyneth Edwards from Old Harbour, with 2 children."

Old Harbour residents clearing debris from a blocked gully.

Section of a flooded out dwelling.