The car was swept away in Voortrekker Street, Robertson Cape Town. - The hemelsluise yesterday properly over parts of the Western and Eastern Cape and opened a body of water the cars swept away, homes damaged and flooded shops and campsites. pure water perfect taste Especially Robertson suffered seriously when 176 mm of rain has dropped out of the town. Many shops and houses were flooded and rescuers had to use tractors to cars that were trapped pure water perfect taste in the body of water after dragging safety. According predictors of the weather service could be expected rain Saturday in the east of the country. For the arid Cape metropole However, no rain predicted for the next few days. Mrs. Tolla van der Westhuizen, manager of the store at the Shell - garage in Voortrekker Street, Robertson said the rain yesterday at 09:00 started falling. "I have in my life some way to witness. The streets looked like the sea - complete with waves. The strong water current has moved a heavy refrigerator in the store about 2 m." According to Mr. Johan du Toit, owner of the shop, damage to his store and the garage at around R200 000 estimated. "I did not expect it would look so bad - a person can water once." Me. Kaashiefa Gallantt of Grassy Park was for a business trip to Robertson when the water trapped her in her car. "I panicked when I got the door open and the water intake of the car." Taking STOCK: Kathleen Jansen sorted to salvage what's left or re home in Robertson after heavy rain drenched the town. (Denvor de Wee, Die Burger) Many houses in the neighborhood Dry Hill on Robertson pure water perfect taste flooded. Mrs. Kathleen pure water perfect taste Jansen was with her children in this neighborhood home when the water hit their home. Her kitchen was badly damaged. A friend of hers, Mrs. Regina Pietersen, said: "I was standing in my door when the water came down the road. People's possessions in the current swept away." Mr. Kobus Bender, who has a shop in town, said the water "like a river in the street" for his company passed away. In some streets flooded water over cars' bonnets. The town was temporarily pure water perfect taste without power after the electricity supply by storm cut off. The police, the local emergency services and the military has a joint operations pure water perfect taste center-established at the town's war headquarters to coordinate disaster management there. Mr. Seon Swartz, deputy head of the Breede River Winelands Traffic Department, said the R60 between Robertson and Worcester were closed yesterday for three hours. "The road was closed about 11:30 after heavy rain flooded pure water perfect taste the road. It was reopened at about 13:30. It was the only road in the area had to be closed." The municipalities also campers at the Silver Beach resort whose caravans were flooded, food and accommodation provided. Mr. Cobus Dowry, Western Cape minister of agriculture, said that although his department is thankful for the relief brought rain to the drought-stricken region, he is very concerned about the damage caused. His department should today have clarity on the extent of the damage for the Western Cape agriculture. The Eastern Cape particular suffered pure water perfect taste under the heavy storms. A man drowned in Port Alfred and Kamesh pure water perfect taste a man killed pure water perfect taste when he came across a causeway and walked by a river current swept away. In Port Elizabeth, disaster management staff said there was not a single area of the Nelson Mandela Metro which is not flooded. End newspaper article. We have storms passed fairly well. I had yesterday pure water perfect taste morning early in Cape Town are on the way back and I some 200 km to drive to to get home. The garden was so completely ondergestroomd, but home was all happy dry. Only found the roof of the garage a little leak, the floor was partially wet. It represents an important part of our stored contents, and we can not correctly assess whether there is damage. The state park that is completely filled with furniture and boxes for entry you must be there first thing evisceration (and outside turn). Today rained still so we decided to await better weather to receive any damages.
Wim and Rita van de Sande Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa Rita and I have been a long time ago decided to bid farewell to say and a new life to go build the Netherlands in South Africa. The sale of our house in Geldrop pure water perfect taste has provided the necessary delay, but ultimately also successful, and we sit now with dogs and cat in South Africa. We have it in December 2003, a piece of land (119 hectares) purchased near McGregor, about 160 km east of Cape Town, and it is the intention of it to build a house plus a number of guest. The guest will we hire on the basis of bed and breakfast 'and / or' s