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Raining cats and dogs

10/21/2012

 
Plenty of rain the last few days, which saw parts of the city underwater as well as the Sand River bridge at St Francis going kaput yet again. The ou's who went to Seals for the weekend are stoked to have a legit excuse to bunk work and school for the first part of the week!

On a more serious note, you can donate food, blankets etc at the South End fire station to assist all those that lost homes in the floods.

Here's a collection of pics from around the Eastern Cape....
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Maitlands in flood - just imagine the banks! Image Nick Cadle
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The Shark River running through Happy Valley and down onto Hobie Beach
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Happy Valley
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Seaview Rd at Bushy Park
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What was the Sand River bridge at SF
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Airport access rd at 3rd avenue
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Wonder if the ou has a drivers license for his kayak!
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Essexvale at the bottom of Target Kloof
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Big gat on the road btw PE and Grahamstown
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The new main road outta SF
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A big wave smashed into the harbour wall at Port St Francis and bust a piece off!
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Traffic circle become traffic puddle
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On the way to Cradock
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Water hole? The golf course at SF
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Road to the airport. By Ang Slabbert
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Seaview road - at least 6ft under water
Basil Skosana
10/21/2012 10:37:00 pm

Sometimes, poor quality control during construction of the affected road can be a contributory factor, supplemented by lack of maintenance. Both these factors can have a devastating effect on our road network.
Yes, it is true that rainfall intensity went above above 100mm level but flooding was being experienced at a 30 mm level already. This means that at the time when the 100 mm level was reached the soil had already reached a state of saturation. This is also strange because the Cape is known to have very good road building materials, yet we see bad geotechnical engineering practises all over.


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