"We want to move out of this school more than anything else as the children need to go back to classes - and they can't whilst we're still living here.�

The Mayor of Clarendon, Milton Brown, says they will be putting people in tents in the short-term, but they want to re-locate people more permanently to higher ground.

That could take some time yet.

Text and pictures by Nina Robinson, BBC News, Clarendon, Jamaica