While Cayo has been the epicentre for excessive amounts of floodwaters, here in the Belize District along the coast, residents have also had to deal with rising waters. Courtney Menzies took a look at some of the areas most affected.
When Tropical Depression Eta came with 65 miles of Belize city this morning, it whipped up a storm surge that rolled towards the coast, inundating the Belize District.
That and the accumulation of days of rain turned streets into riverways in Ladyville and Los Lagos - something the residents say they have never seen on this scale.
Traffic was slowed on the Philip Goldson Highway that passes through Ladyville because vehicles were pushing wide swells like boats, as they pushed through the flood waters.
One resident expressed concern that her vehicle may be damaged since she still needs to do her daily errands.
Reporter
"Have you ever seen it get this bad?"
Voice of: Ladyville resident
"Yes, once. We had a hurricane coming and afterwards there was a lot of flooding and another time when there was a flash flood in the river, this usually is flooded, but not this bad."
"We divert, we take other routes that we know for a fact aren't as flooded as the main here but most of the stores that you really need to get to are in the direct area of flooding."
"In some areas where some people live, they don't have any other choice, water is almost in their homes, so yes they have to be in the water."
Another resident is concerned for people who must maneuver through the flood without falling into drains and manholes.
Christopher Thomas, Ladyville Resident
"This is what we are experiencing in Ladyville, we would just like to see better than this in Ladyville, Everyone is walking in water, some people have to pay real good attention not to go in the drain."
"If we don't have the proper drainage to enter the water to the sea, what do you think would happen to we? Look at Lowe's for example, we only got one more feet of water to go into Lowe's supermarket."
The situation in Los Lagos is no different - and actually may be worse. Just like this confused puppy, many of the residents in that community are surrounded by water.
The pond in that area has risen and the nearby lots have essentially turned into pools of dirty water riddled with bugs and other animals.
A resident living directly across from the pond is monitoring the water, hoping it doesn't reach inside her house.
Sandra Perez, Los Lagos Resident
"Last night it rained very hard and non-stop so you can see the water now but I'm blessed that no water is in the house."
"I've never seen - in fact I've never seen the pond in front of us rise up so high, I guess maybe, well this is unprecedented, but it's just too much rain."
"Nobody I think expected this and everybody has to go work. I had to go work today but thank God I didn't have to so I'm home, I'm just watching to make sure, well I don't know what I can do, except to put sandbags but apart from that we just have to live with it."
Reporter
"Has anyone needed to evacuate or just really need to leave?"
Sandra Perez, Los Lagos Resident
"I think one person about two minutes ago put on the chat group that they need to leave because water was inside the house almost to their knee."
For one man, he is thankful that he thought ahead and began preparing for major flooding from earlier in the week.
Kirkland Smith, Los Lagos Resident
"This is the worse flooding we have experienced in this part of the community, normally we get heavy rains and the water will rise up to just below the six inches and as soon as the rain is over it runs off but, on record, this is the worse ever, so my 16 yrs up here i've never seen this before."
"I saw it coming and I said I had to do something and it took some investment but we got the sandbags from Cattouse Trucking Services and they were very prompt in the their response in our urgent need and I got to do the back door and I got to do the front porch here and it saves a lot so the house is not flooded."
But, not everyone had the foresight to prepare ahead of time. How could they, when most did not expect their homes to turn into islands? That is the case for one family who may soon have to evacuate.
Gilbert Neal, Los Lagos Resident
"We dih get sandbags and try put them at the entrance and to the back door make ih no come in and ih still the go in and as you can see, a pool right yah."
Reporter
"Your yard usually get like this?"
Gilbert Neal, Los Lagos Resident
"No, first time. We had to lift up stuff and, you know, we got fi we garage and we had to take out everything, secure lot of things, all ah fi we neighbors have the same problem, almost whole ah Lagos."
"Yesterday, only the sidewalk was flooded but we gone sleep and we mih seh well maybe ih wah slow down and thing but the biggest problem here in Los Lagos is why we get flooded like this is the culvert a few years ago, it burn and it collapse and what they did was just full it with sand and they neva put back no culvert so dah that clog up the water and the water can't run, you know?"
And for the rest of the Belize District? NEMO's District Coordinator, Alpheus Gillett, has been on the ground. Major flooding was seen in Isabella Bank, Burrell Boom, and Scotland Half-moon. Residents in Crooked Tree in particular may soon need to evacuate since the flooding there is slowly worsening.
Voice of: Alpheus Gillet, NEMO District Coordinator, Belize District
"Crooked Tree lagoon is the biggest water catchment for all of that water coming from the west and so I'm here in Crooked Tree and the lagoon hasn't reaches its maximum capacity, but it's almost there. As a matter of fact it's very close to the point where it will start backing up and with all these rain we having in our area and all the bulk of water coming from the west we are anticipating that some time over this weekend we should start experience where vulnerable families living along the water edges will be affected."
NEMO is prepared to evacuate persons if needed.
