Heavy rains that have hit Cameroon throughout recent days have left hopelessness and tumult afterward, with individuals attempting to adapt to flooding, avalanches and street disarray.
For some in the South-West area it is the most obviously awful blustery season in living memory.
"I have lived in Tiko for over 30 years yet I have not seen this sort of downpour," a food seller in the town told the BBC.
Over the course of the end of the week, no less than one youngster kicked the bucket in Tiko when their family home imploded.
The floods were set off on Saturday by an unexpected tempest that moved throughout regions by the fundamental street connecting the towns of Likomba and Mutengene, which goes through Tiko.
Joined by wild breezes, the downpours thumped down trees and walls at the police school in Mutengene.
Tiko occupant Vincent Njume said: "I saw the Likomba River spilling over its banks, flooding with woods and family stuffs. Trees were falling."
Rocks and stones were flowing down the delicate slopping street connecting Tiko and Mutengene, the two towns at the foot of Mount Cameroon.
The street then transformed into a quick streaming waterway, disturbed traffic for quite a long time, leaving drivers of substantial trucks and travelers in taxis caught. It has required a few days to clean up the mud and garbage and individuals have shared recordings of the bloodletting:
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Many individuals are currently counting their misfortunes. Up to 3,000 chickens were cleared away from a poultry ranch in the Down Beach neighborhood of Tiko.
A structure and pool under development vanished in the flood. With many people watching and shouting, a well known bar was likewise cleared away.
While some fault environmental change for the expanded precipitation, area official for Tiko, Armstrong Voh - who has plainly been overpowered with the degree of annihilation - said that unlawful developments just exacerbated the situation.
He cautioned that individuals who had assembled houses by streams or marshes would have their homes crushed to permit free progression of streams.
"If not, we will continually have circumstances of floods in Tiko," he told state-run Cameroon Tribune paper.
Tiko-based writer Ivo Ngong, who saw a torrential slide, concurred there was an issue: "Individuals are discouraging water ways. They are constructing indiscriminately, felling trees and impeding waste frameworks with plastics and other junk."
Different towns, including the capital city, Yaoundé, presently experience flooding consistently during the blustery season, which runs from March until September.
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Soni Armstrong, an occupant of Limbe, along the coast in the South-West locale, says he has needed to move house since he was residing in a space by a marsh.
A couple of months prior his family was snoozing when they found rising waters in the room - and went through hours until day break safeguarding their refrigerator, furniture and cooking wares.
They have now moved to higher ground, for which he is appreciative given the deluges of the most recent couple of days.
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