GROUNDUP: We’re lucky to be alive, says Durban flood survivor By Musa Binda for GroundUp
I have seen heavy rains in my life, but not like I saw in the early hours of today,” said
Ngubo told GroundUp that he and his family are lucky to be alive as part of their three-room shack fell on them while they were sleeping.Last night we had seen that the weather was getting uglier but we stayed in our shack because we had nowhere else to go. We kept praying that it wouldn’t get worse in the middle of the night but we could hear the rain hitting harder and harder on the roof,” said Ngubo.
He said that was when he noticed that the children’s mother, Balungile Mthembu, 39, had not come out of the shack.I left my kids outside and went back inside the shack and that’s when I discovered that she was seriously injured in her legs. I started shouting for help from the neighbours and we called the ambulance but it took a long time so we ended up helping her out of the rubble and hired a car. She was rushed to Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital,” said Ngubo.
MEC Nomsa Dube-Ncube urged residents and visitors to the province to remain on full alert and to move to higher ground if under threat. She said disaster relief efforts were in progress in all affected areas.Heavy rains have claimed 32 lives so far and 10 missing persons, all [of the missing] are children in and around Durban alone. There have also been 42 reported injuries. Over 2,000 emergency calls were logged in the Durban area last night,” said Dube-Ncube.
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