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Subject: Floods In Pretoria (6-09-2012.)


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:37 PM · edited Sat, 11 January 2025 at 3:31 AM

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I want to share with you some captures of floods we had this afternoon about 7 hours ago. A low level bridge in Capital Park was flooded. I went over that bridge with my veicle at about 15:20 and an hour later all the roads leading to that same low level bridge was blocked by the Metro Police as the low level bridge was under water. Gad had his hands over me and my family and everyone else as we returned safely home. Most of the captures that I will share in this thread has been captured either by my eldest daughter or my wife. The few captures i took i was either not in my vehicle yet or i pulled of the road or i waited at traffic lights.

God Bless.


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:42 PM

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Here is one of the first captures. A capture i took of the approaching storm.


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:45 PM

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Here we are still on our way to fetch my wife at work. A capture captured by my eldest daughter. This is how dark it looked at one stage at about 15:30 in the afternoon.


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:46 PM

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This is how the visibility was on our way back home. Moments after this capture it started to hail.


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:51 PM

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Here is a capture of the hail.Visibility was so terrible i decided to pull of at a centre and we waited there a while before we continued with our trip home.


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:52 PM

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Here we also drove past an accident scene near our home.


kgb224 ( ) posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 3:53 PM

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Here is one more and the last capture that my wife took this afternoon and at this stage we were about 1km from home.


ejn ( ) posted Fri, 07 September 2012 at 1:46 AM

Looks scary, hope you are all OK. Thanks for sharing


jayfar ( ) posted Fri, 07 September 2012 at 3:27 AM

Looks very scary Christo. Some pics were shown on our TV here in the UK last night.


helanker ( ) posted Fri, 07 September 2012 at 4:48 AM

WOW! Such a dramatic and scary trip, Christo. I am glad you all came home safely.

Thanks for sharing your Pictures.


whaleman ( ) posted Fri, 07 September 2012 at 1:08 PM

Glad you and your family are safe Christo!


Meisiekind ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 10:55 AM

The water almost came into my house as the hail blocked the downflow pipes. It was a scary storm!

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