Pray for South Africa- Disaster from Massive Storm this past week

Below is the latest information from the news reports on the storms that have been occurring this past week. It's been a crazy past week. They say it was the worse they have seen in seven years. .........

"There are still reports of minor localised flooding," said disaster management spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes, adding that light rain continued to fall.
Most roads had been cleared after gale force winds and heavy rains battered the province.
"It played havoc with the electricity supply," he said, adding that an increased demand for electricity and trees toppling power lines had caused outages.

Johannesburg - It was a weekend of storms, snow and runaway fires, which in KwaZulu-Natal claimed the lives of at least seven people.
The Western Cape had to endure strong wind, rain and even snow, while the wind fanned veld fires in the eastern Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
In the northern parts of the country, cold conditions arrived on Sunday afternoon, right before the official start of spring.

The gale-force winds and heavy rains that hit the Western Cape brought destruction to several areas, reported Nurene Jassiem.
In one of the most serious incidences, seven people were injured when a roof collapsed due to wind at the Pick 'n Pay Hypermark centre in Ottery.

Several residential areas were flooded, power cuts were experienced and snow-covered regions like Sutherland, were cut off from the rest of the country.

Three Anchor Bay in Cape Town was turned into a white wonderland when a thick layer of foam was blown over Sea Point's streets.

Wind speeds of up to 100km/h were reported to the weather office at the George airport, reported Jackie Kruger.

Snow was visible on the Langeberg mountains and in the Heidelberg region emergency repair work was needed to restore power to farms.

Fires
Northern parts of the country experienced strong winds, which fanned a veld fire on the West Rand, which destroyed a 5 000 hectare area, including a third of the well-known Lion and Rhino Park, reported Cobus Coetzee. Four marabou stork escaped the flames.
The fire started on Saturday morning in Hekpoort.
Grazing was destroyed and damage ran into millions of rands. Jorrie Jordaan, head of public safety at the West Rand district municipality, said on Sunday the flames reached up to 7m and even jumped over fire strips of 20m.
Malherbe (Blikkies) Auret of the farm Rietfontein lost 100 hectares of grazing. "It is difficult to get feed at the end of the dry season," said Auret.

In KwaZulu-Natal, the fires claimed several lives and destroyed houses, cars and cattle.

A State forest at Dargle in the Midlands was covered in smoke on Sunday.
The weather service warned there was still a high possibility of fires in the province on Monday and that seas would be rough, with swells of up to 7m high in many parts.