Excavator hurriedly takes places sand in front of the new path formed due to flooding before high tide, to prevent further erosion to the road and beach front properties

Sand bags placed as a make-shift barrier to the coming high tide that continues to suck sand out to sea, further undermining the badly collapsed Manzanilla-Mayaro Road and beach front properties

Debris left by flooding

Collapsed resort property, daily the high tide sucks sand from its base, Manzanilla beach

Collapsed resort property, daily the high tide sucks sand from its base, Manzanilla beach

Private contractor views a lake formed by flood waters, Manzanilla-Mayaro Road

A lake forms where dry land once was, eroded due to heavy flooding from the Nariva Swamp

Collapsed resort property, daily the high tide sucks sand from its base, Manzanilla beach

House destroyed by flood waters, Manzanilla-Mayaro Road