Tygerburger table view 21 08 2013

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For some people the flooding and incessant rain of last week just added to the adventure of life. Here a young woman bravely continues training on the new pathway in front of Sunset Beach. PHOTO: DAVE COLINS

RIVERS OVERFLOW: LOW AREAS FLOOD

Storm rains ails Cape ANDRÉ BAKKES

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undreds of kilometres from Cape Town the first of a series of cold fronts forms. The cooler, denser air wedges itself under the warmer air and a low pressure system is born. By Monday last week it had determinedly made its way to the West Coast. The wet week started modestly with 0.4 mm of rainfall over Robben Island at

17:00 and an hour later over the Royal Yacht Club. The first front, as well as those in its wake, brought with them buckets of rain, gale force winds, cold temperatures and an array of headaches for those on the ground.

Warning SA Weather sent out warnings to the public on Tuesday and the Disaster Risk Management Centre was on alert. Then a series of cold fronts hit Cape Town and it felt as if the entire Atlantic Ocean was

falling from the sky. By Thursday the City of Cape town had spent over R2.6 million on relief provisions to residents affected by the heavy rain. The city’s Disaster Relief Management team, Provincial Department of Social Development, South African State Security Agency and numerous non-governmental organisations worked together to distribute “relief packages” to vulnerable residents. Parts of Ou Skip Caravan Park, Vue Du Cap Retirement Village and Milnerton Aquatic Club flooded and members of the

Milnerton riding club used a jet-ski to retrieve valuable equipment from the stables before it washed away. The Diep River overflowed and left parts of Marine Drive, Racecourse Road bridge, Woodbridge and Rietvlei under water. It would have been possible for someone to canoe up Koeberg Road! The path along Sunset Beach resembled a river, the Vissershok Road next to the N7 flooded and the new bridge over Diep River got its first rigidity test. V To page 2.


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