Row row your boat gently down the flood

So after the big rains in Pretoria/Johannesburg I wanted to go visit a client so after taking multiple roads and getting blocked I finally found a road I could take. Passed a couple of stuck 4X4's and a truck or two in my little TAZZ surprised I made it out.

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Driftwood!!!

 

Actually that used to be the tree next to the bridge which is gone now.

 

yeah i saw in the paper that the road that goes under the N1 in centurian was like a river, its surreal cos i drive past there regularly

 

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Ya... no look guys, the flooding is bad.... But spare a thought for those down under.

Saw a website yesterday of "before-after" of the suburbs in Brisbane. As you move your mouse over the before picture, is exposes what is happening now. It's terrible.

SA floods.
Aus Floods
USA Flood + Snow storm
EU Major snow storms

2012???

 

well according to the movie, we'll be safe at duban - drakensburg haha..

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or was it cape town - drakensburg

 

2012? Pff....nothing is going to happen lol

@shihr think it was CPT one

 

Table Mountain= Capetown
Drakensberg=Natal/Lesotho

Agree with troyfish, bunch of rubbish.

 

i know that.. but in the movie, they said, safest place in after the flood was in drakensburg capetown or something like that.. was funny

 

lol. Im must check the movie out. Atleast if Cpt and Burbs is save then im safe in George also. kewl!

 

I must say I get a bit annoyed with posts like this. A firemen lost his life trying to rescue a motorist washed off a bridge surely after hearing something like that you avoid trying to cross rivers especially where other cars are stuck? What would have happened if your tazz had not made it through? Some poor guy would have had to risk his life in order to save your neck. Glad you did make it through tho

@Zoom disasters today are no worse we simply have a higher population so more people will be affected by disasters. We also have far more access to instant news about these events. Another interesting study is on the effect of text reporting v images v video footage. People remember video footage better and find it more dramatic than text or pics therefore the perception is that things are worse. The only proven increase in "disasters" is flash flooding in urban areas due to increased run off from artificial surfaces like roads etc. The other interesting effect is an urban heat dome caused by once again artificial surfaces which reflect heat as opposed to absorbing it as well as the localized pollution trapping the outgoing radiation causing a localized temperature increase over the urban area...... Some pointless but interesting info

 

Those trucks and 4x4's were stuck in mud not on the flooded bridges.

 

I agree with the second paragraph from fishRman

 

@larch sorry bud for laying into you a bit there without all the info. You just get some idiots that will not think and end up requiring others to help them out