The Buffalo City Municipality issued an pressing warning to residents in the next areas to be ready to evacuate to a devasting storm on Monday morning.
A STORM IN THE EASTERN CAPE WREAKED HAVOC ON MONDAY
“The Metro is issuing an urgent warning to communities to be on high alert and those in low-lying areas to evacuate as rains continue to persist.
The SA Weather Services (SAWS) has issued a level 2 yellow warning for disruptive rain for the Province, including Buffalo City, valid from Mon 08 Aug 00:00 until Mon 08 Aug 20:00.”The Buffalo City Municipality
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The Municipality moreover stated catastrophe administration and human settlements groups have been dispatched to a number of affected areas after sturdy winds and protracted rains blew rooftops and timber, flooded properties, and swept away shacks throughout the metro.
THESE ARE THE AFFECTED AREAS:
Areas affected are as:
- Gonubie
- Beacon bay
- Buffalo flats
- Stirling
- Amalinda
- Greenfields
- Highgate
- Parkside
- Dimbaza
- Sweetwaters
- Mdantsane
- Zone 18
- Post dam
- Part of zone 17
- Zone 16
- Part of zone 15
- Zone 12
- Zone 9
- Part zone 8 and 10
Residents can contact the Municipality’s catastrophe staff or their native ward councillors for help in accessing close by group halls.
DO YOU NEED HELP NOW?
Residents are urged to contact the catastrophe groups on the next numbers:
For catastrophe:
Call: 043 743 7118 or 705 9333 or 705 9000
For electrical energy:
Consumers can name: 043 0505 683 or WhatsApp: 0763978198
Or obtain the designer lighting app
VARIOUS AREAS WITHOUT POWER
Eskom stated on Monday that they’re conscious of the interruption of electrical energy provide to numerous areas in the Eastern Cape following a storm that handed by this morning.
“Our technicians are on various sites continuing to do assessments, closing breakers that ripped and doing repairs to restore the supply in areas where it is possible.”
Eskom stated the next areas are affected by the ability outage:
Ngqushwa, Cintsa, Willowvale, Centane, Ngcobo and Mthatha.
“We urge affected residents to be patient and to treat all electrical appliances as live during this time.”
Communities should not try to restore or be in contact with wires which can be hanging as that is harmful however somewhat report these.
REPORT POWER OUTAGES HERE:
You can report the outages right here:
Consumers can WhatsApp: 0763978198
Or obtain the designer lighting app
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“Our teams are following incidents pertaining to Ward 20, zone 8 Mdantsane where shacks are reported to have been washed away and some damaged by wind.
“In Macleantown, Ward 26, our disaster management teams are aware of several houses that have been affected with roofs blown off by last night’s strong winds.
“The Metro is issuing the alert with the history of 08 Jan in mind where flash floods displaced hundreds and resulted in nine fatalities.”
The Buffalo City Municipality
DO YOU NEED ASSISTANCE IN ACCESSING A COMMUNITY HALL?
Residents can contact the Municipality’s catastrophe staff or their native ward councillors for help in accessing close by group halls.
The Buffalo City Metro can also be warning motorists on the highway to train additional warning throughout these wet and moist circumstances.
“Our traffic officers are on standby together with our emergency services for road safety incidents.
“Our technicians are also responding to the several areas that are experiencing power faults in eQonce (Breidbach and Sweetwaters); in Mdantsane and in East London (Amalinda, Gonubie, Berea, Brayelyn, Dukashe, Beacon Bay, Stirling).
“With weather predictions saying there will be consistent rain throughout the day, we have emergency teams on standby for traffic, water, electricity roads and we are urging residents to report emergencies on our call center 0861113017 so that we can attend to them.”
The Buffalo City Municipality
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