It's been one hectic week with flood damage, tragedies and missing people here in Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa.
Who would ever think such a disaster would occur so suddenly and leave such devastation around, wreaking havoc to major infrastructures such as roads, electricity, water and ports, compromising the delivery of essential services.
I'm still trying to comprehend the power that moving water has and what a destructive force it can create.
So many have lost everything, it almost makes me feel guilty that I've come out unscathed, except, having no running water and a day or so without electricity, which is a miner detail compared to what others are going through.
My heart goes out to those who have lost so much... wish I could help them all...unfortunately, we can only reach out and help where we can...not so?
I feel so sorry for the water board team in our area, working non stop through the night trying to fix the main pipes, the damage has been quite extensive, and the rain hasn't made it easy for them at all.
I believe some of the men haven't slept in 24 hours trying to get our water running again.
I'm afraid it's going to be quite awhile before things are working normally.
I think a lot of people, including myself have learnt patience in all of this...everyone is doing the best they can in this crises.
People have been quite amazing actually, reaching out to each other with love and kindness, sharing what ever they can.
My grandson said to me today... "Gran, this has been a crazy past two years...we've been through three crises, "the Lock down", "July riots" and now the flood disaster",....I told him that we'll get through it, and come out better and stronger people in the end.
We cannot sit on a heap of "self pity" and allow ourselves to become depressed...get up dust yourself off and continue the best you can.
Well!...we've been making the most of it and camping out, harvesting water from the gutters to flush the toilets and washing floors.
Hubby harvesting water in buckets from the gutters.
It's amazing how many liters one can get from running water from the roof.
We definitely need a "Jojo" or two, seeing the weather scientists predict more of this kind of disasters, due to "global warming" or "climate change"... what ever they want to call it.
Omg....I hope they're wrong.
Harvested water bottles every where in the house.
I've become very innovative in ways to shower with the harvested water, it's quite amazing how one copes in a crises like this.
I wont go into detail...I might just be censored from Hive Lol!
We've been getting drinking water from a bore hole on a farm near us as the stores have run out of bottled water.
Took a photo of some woody neck storks and Egyptian geese enjoying the wet weather in the entrance of the farm.
Although the sun has come out and the sky's trying to clear, there are still heavy clouds hanging about ready to release it's load on us again.
Oh yes!...then there is Lucy the "Bitch" oblivious to the catastrophe around her.
I mean.... "What the hell!....life is still great..."she's happy"
I know I wont be taking life for granted any more, I'm going to appreciate and enjoy what I have...and if I can share it with others?...I will.
I'm sure it's going to take awhile before things return to normal, there is so much planning for repair work and re-building to be done, it seems a bit overwhelming to me....I'm sure we have good engineers who will take up the task of rebuilding our beautiful KZN back to it's former glory.
As the saying goes.... pick up the pieces....clean up the mess.... do what we can and help those who need it the most, sadly (there's a lot of them) and continue on our journey through this beautiful planet...one never knows what's lying around the corner.😘
Keep the love going
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