Petrina Francis, Staff Reporter

This house in Rocky Point, Clarendon, is held together by ropes. Rocky Point is one of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Dean on Sunday. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Imagine your child crying for water to drink and you have none to give him because the little supply that was stored in anticipation of Hurricane Dean, which lashed the island on Sunday, has run out.

Well, that is the plight of some residents of Rocky Point, Clarendon, who like many other Jamaicans have been left without running water since Sunday.

"Mi baby a bawl fi water an mi nuh have none to give him to drink, so I went out to Lionel Town and buy one of the little bottle of water," Nadine Washington, a resident of Rocky Point told The Gleaner, yesterday.

Ms. Washington who has eight children, seven of whom live with her, said her wooden house was blown down by the hurricane. A make-shift house was constructed on Monday, using tarpaulinand other material so they could have somewhere to sleep.

"Now wi trying to put up a one room because rain fall last night and wet us up," she said.

"Last night I used one bottle of water to bathe some of them and I not even know how they are going to bathe tonight - they will have to go to their bed same way," she added.

'We are affected too'

"Everything is going to Portland Cottage and people in Rocky Point are affected too," Ms. Washington said.

Marlene Thomas, who also resides in Rocky Point, has been spreading a tarpaulin on the floor of her shop so she and five of her seven children can sleep each night, because their house too was also destroyed by the Category Four system.

"A night time mi pain up because the floor tough," she told The Gleaner, yesterday.

"My house top completely gone and the windows them mash out," she said.

"There is no water and the dirty pots them just here sitting down because I have no water to wash them up," she added.

petrina.francis@gleanerjm.com