[TRENDING] What's behind South Africa's flood disaster
Residents in Durban's Inanda district collect water from a pool created by a collapsed roadDURBAN - South Africa, the continent's most industrialised country, has largely escaped the tropical cyclones that regularly hit its neighbours.
"Cut-off low pressure systems are common. Their frequency becomes high during autumn and spring seasons, and they are differing in strength," said Puseletso Mofokeng with the South African Weather Service.Some of these systems are very intense, causing heavy rain, hail, strong and potentially damaging winds and heavy snowfall.If the storm system itself is a known phenomenon, the difference this time was the intensity of the the deluge.
"We are feeling the impact of what will certainly be unpredictable, more frequent, severe and extreme weather events." If the soil is not properly"stabilised in the hilly areas, it's obvious you were going to have landslides," she said. "The ways in which South African cities were designed were very exclusionary in nature," said planner Magidimisha-Chipungu.
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