Firefighters from York Park and Half-Way Tree brigades work yesterday to retrieve the body of a woman trapped in this SUV in the Sandy Gully, in the vicinity of Perkins Boulevard, St Andrew. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

The body of an unidentified woman, believed to be in her 20s, was retrieved from an overturned sport utility vehicle in the Sandy Gully, in the vicinity of Perkins Boulevard yesterday.

Reports are that about 6 a.m. during rains associated with Tropical Storm Fay, residents saw the vehicle in the flooded gully and called the police.

Up to yesterday evening, the police were trying to determine whether the driver, believed to be a man, fled the scene after losing control of the vehicle.

Meanwhile, several homes were flooded and many roadways left impassable as heavy rains pounded sections of the island Saturday night into Sunday morning.

In the Corporate Area, 10 homes were flooded on Bloomsbury Road while another dwelling was destroyed by a landslide in Irish Town, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) reported. A few other homes were damaged by the collapse of a wall in Cassia Park, ODPEM said.

Tropical storm watch lifted

Michelle Edwards, senior director of mitigation, planning and research at ODPEM, told The Gleaner yesterday that Kingston, St Andrew, St Catherine and Clarendon were severely affected by the storm.

The Meteorological Service at 2 p.m. yesterday lifted the tropical storm watch that had been in effect since Saturday morning.

At 1 p.m. Sunday, the centre of Fay was located near latitude 20.8 degrees north and longitude 79.8 degrees west. This is about 320 kilometres (200 miles) north-northwest of Negril Point, said the Met Service.

Edwards said that in Clarendon and St Catherine, damage was mostly caused to roadways. Three homes were flooded in Central Village, St Catherine.

Around 5 p.m. yesterday, the National Works Agency had already cleared most of the roadways that were flooded.

Tropical Storm Fay killed six persons - three in the Dominican Republic and three in Haiti - and later dumped downpours on Cuba yesterday.

Forecasters have predicted that Fay could strengthen to a hurricane and start pelting parts of Florida late Monday into Tuesday.

Flooded roadways

Kingston and St Andrew

In Cassia Park

Chelsea Road

Lower section of Chisholm Avenue

Marcus Garvey Drive

Vicinity of Waterfalls on Old Hope Road

Gully in the vicinity of Bedford Close

Maryland

Newcastle roadway was impassable due to landslide

Roadway leading from Norbrook to Woodford was impassable.

German Hill roadway was affected by a landslide

Dallas to Cane River route was cleared by the NWA.

St Catherine

Dunbeholden road was flooded

Clarendon

Flooding in Four Paths

St Thomas

Section of Bull Bay was relegated to single-lane traffic due to landslides

Main road from the parish leading into Portland was also single lane.