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When 49-year-old Odette Grandison returned home from work yesterday, her neighbours had to stop her in her tracks as she tried to enter her home.

Grandison, who lost her sight in 2015 due to glaucoma, had to be lifted by neighbours and taken to the gate of her three-bedroom home.

"Oh my God!" Grandison said in disbelief, as she felt the water rushing over her feet from her home in Hampton Green, Spanish Town.

"I'm living here about 10 years now. I'm just coming from work to this. Jesus Christ! I had no idea the house was flooded," she told THE STAR.

As residents prevented her from entering the house, her spouse was inside sorting through their damaged belongings.

"How far the water reach? It wet the TV? So, it don't make no sense for me to go inside?" Grandison asked anxiously.

The Meteorological Service has extended a flash flood watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of all parishes. Hurricane Delta has intensified to a category four storm and though it is not a clear threat to Jamaica, the country has felt its impact. Michael Chin, Grandison's spouse, was at home at the time of the flood with their five-year-old daughter.

"From me see the water a come in me afi draw down the breaker so we nuh get electrocuted. It terrible! A the first the water come so heavy. Water usually come and flood but it nuh usually come in a house. Two barrel a clothes and clothes in a dresser wet up. Everything mash up. Documents, house title, everything wet up!" Chin told THE STAR. "The next lady beside me flood out too. The water wicked! We need help." Chin says their daughter's school supplies are drenched. Tamar, 33, a neighbour, was also flooded out.

"Trust me. I'm outside right now looking in, and hoping the water go down. A the first me ever see this. This is literally sea," she said. "I have TV and so forth inside, but the water nuh reach so high yet. Listen to me, a sea me have in deh right yah now."