Rehanna Prabhudyal woke to the roaring of crashing waves. Water from the Atlantic Ocean rose several feet into the air, the momentum carrying the waves forward over the seawall, then, seconds later, the water slammed into the ground and rushed towards her fence, battering it and rapidly flooding the yard.
“We had to hustle,” the woman recounted yesterday. For the second time in two months, the family rushed to move appliances and furniture out of reach of the swirling salt water as the unusually high tides swamped yards and flooded homes at Oceanview, Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara