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Antique furniture presented to the Institute of Jamaica.

"A washed out family ponder their future."

Section of a flooded out dwelling.

Old Harbour residents clearing debris from a blocked gully.

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

"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…

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

"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."

"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."

"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."