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Lowvelder: Minor flash floods in KNP force road closure

Three roads and a bridge closed.
Marinette Potgieter | 29 December 2014 17:05

MBOMELA- Minor flash floods in the Kruger National Park (KNP) forced the closure of the Sand River Bridge near Skukuza as well as that of three other roads in the park this morning.
The S30 Road in the south and the S55 and S56 in the north that all run along the Sabie River, are still closed.
According to KNP spokesman Ms Laura Mukwevho, the Sand River Bridge is a low-water bridge and therefor vulnerable to flooding.
The floods were caused by continuous rain in the area during the past week.
Mukwevho says no road damage has been reported as yet and the roads will be reopened as soon as they have been cleared. She says a full analysis of the current situation in the park will be available tomorrow.

Toko wrote: The S30 Road in the south and the S55 and S56 in the north that all run along the Sabie River, are still closed.

Ai! S-56 is near Shingwedzi, not Sabie River! Hopefully just a misquote...

need water... but not too much and not at the same places

No rain today, don't know about Kruger...but 70 mm in Pretoria 3 days ago, for example, and a lot of Gauteng and Highveld water comes down the rivers!

Should be ok!

I wonder if this cyclone below is going to fade out before it hits KNP

Not again

Apparently moving eastwards .

On top of homepage http://www.weatherphotos.co.za/index.html , click on "severe weather" on the top of page and click on "tropical storms/cyclones" (#6)

direct link : http://www.weatherphotos.co.za/severe-weather.html (click on #6)

As far as I have it, it is a cat 4 Tropical Cyclone (Bansi) moving ESE at 2kph with wind speeds of 215kph.

Thanks serval! Long time no smell...

Nelspruit looks far too close to this thing!

Must say the weather has been unsettled the last few days!

Guys, I'll move this to here and lock this thread for being out of date.