THE National Meteorological Service last night extended its flood warning issued Monday for all parishes, saying heavy rains and thunderstorms affecting the island since Sunday should continue until late today.

In the meantime, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) yesterday reported flooding and landslides in some low-lying and flood-prone areas in St Thomas and Clarendon.

According to the ODPEM, a river in the Back Bush area of Yallahs – the St Thomas capital – overflowed it banks, forcing 31 residents to seek shelter in a nearby church.

Several roads in the parish were also reported blocked as a result of flooding, cutting off transportation between some areas of the rural parish.

The blocked roads include those between Bath and Barrett Gap, Bath to Hayfield, Potossi to Mount Rive Bridge, Windsor Forest to Mahoganyvale, Belvedere to Hall Head and Clay to Lowe Mountain.

In Clarendon, which is still reeling from damage sustained by Hurricane Dean in August, two senior citizens had to seek shelter at a neighbour in Rocky Point.

The Corporate Area was, however, relatively incident-free up to last night as there were no reports of flooding in any of the areas that are usually affected.

Typical flood-prone areas like the community of New Haven, Marcus Garvey Drive in the vicinity of the Petrojam plant, Spanish Town Road, in the vicinity of the alkali company and the Grant’s Pen gully were not affected this time around.