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Even a stroll around the capital, St John's, is fraught with hazards for many with an impairment, thanks to omnipresent open gutters, crudely covered drains and cracked paving.

Mr Palmer also described seeing "a woman lying on the ground with the engine of a car on top of her" and a male "lying near a gutter with his head on fire".

In Oxnard, the siding, rain gutters and roofs of several mobile homes were damaged after a weak tornado ripped through the Country Club Mobile Estates and the Ocean Aire Mobile Homes Estates.

That might add more contaminants to your soil, but it’s better than spreading the toxins by flushing it down drains or gutters, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Getting rid of all dead or living weeds is also a good idea, as is clearing gutters, roofs, decks, porches and stairways of flammable materials such as leaves and needles.