Albert Appleby was one of five people travelling in a taxi on the Moore Town road in Portland during heavy rains Saturday when he heard a deafening rumble coming from above.
The driver, Appleby said, informed them that the road was cracking and urged them to exit the vehicle and “push” while he put the vehicle in reverse.
About a minute later, boulders and mud came crashing down, blocking the road and creating a mound of mud, about 20 feet high, which effectively cut off a section of Moore Town and all of Cornwall Barracks.
“Mi look up pon the top and see something a drop dung. When wi realise what really a gwaan wi get up and tek off. Wi mek one run and end up under the shed. One lady, she so frighten she drop her phone and run. A one woman weh a run behind her pick it up and run. It frighten wi. Pure noise, and when wi look, pure mud and stone,” Appleby said.
The vehicle was headed to Port Antonio when the incident occurred, shortly after 8:00 am. None of the five people in the vehicle were injured.
“I never even turn back to look, to how I frighten. Mi just run down inna the valley. Mi a tell you, if the girl did have heart problem she drop dung,” Appleby said in reference to the woman who picked up the cellphone.
Appleby operates a small business in Cornwall Barracks, a community with a population of approximately 2,000 which has been completely cut off to vehicular traffic.
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