ST. George's, Grenada - Unseasonable heavy rains have caused landslides on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials on Tuesday relocated families away from swollen rivers that flooded homes and destroyed small fishing boats.
"We should be in the dry season, but we are experiencing so much rain," Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said while he toured the island's northwest region.
Flooding turned the small coastal town of Gouyave into a jumble of mud, trees, sand and stones. More than 20 families were left without shelter.
Deputy Disaster Coordinator Terrence Walters said no one died or had been reported missing, but residents in the western parishes of St. Mark and St. John lost their belongings. Some 15 fishing boats also were wrecked, he said.
Up to six inches of rain fell during the 24 hours through Tuesday morning and more rain was expected, said John Peters at the state meteorological office.
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As I predicted; "As goes the Southern Hemispheres seasons so go the Northen Hemisphere's." The unrelenting rains vast areas the Southern Hemisphere experienced in their Spring and Summer are now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. There weill be MASSIVE crop failures due to flooding not to mention the soil erosion and ifrastructure damage. 2011 may be the year of global catastropic events of which we can't recover from. Have we reached the tipping point? The scales may have tipped to a world unable to come close to feeding it's people bringing about a complete breakdown of society, starvation on an unprecedented scale, massive riots leading to World War, disease and widespread cannibalism.