City Power is battling a host of power outages while Johannesburg’s Emergency Medical Services are on high alert after severe thunderstorms hit the region, and have asked motorists to drive with extreme caution.
The suburbs affected by the outages include Atholl, Bramley, Killarney, Illovo, Melrose Estate, Houghton, Oaklands, Sunningdale and Waverley. Suburbs in and around the Randpark Ridge area could also be affected. There were also unplanned outages in Ennerdale, Ridgeway, while power outages were also experienced in Block 8 – which had scheduled load shedding between 4am and 5am on Friday.
Power had yet to be restored in some of those areas – which include places such as Glenadrienne, Kya Sand – Ext 101 and Ext 102, North Riding Estates, North Riding Estates Ext, Northgate, Northriding – AH and Ext, Northumberland, Northwold, Northwold Gardens, Northworld Ext, Sharonlea, Sundowner, Sundowner Ext, Ext 6 and Ext 10.
On Thursday, the South African Weather Service issued a level two alert, warning of possible hail storms and severe thunderstorms in parts of KZN, Gauteng, the North West, Free State and Limpopo. The weather service issued an alert on Twitter saying severe thunderstorms could occur in parts of the five provinces. “Expected to develop over parts of the North West and Free State spreading to Gauteng, parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga during this evening and continuing overnight into tomorrow morning,” the weather service said.
⚠️Severe thunderstorms may occur over a large area today . Expected to develop over parts of the North West and Free State spreading to Gauteng, parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga during this evening and continuing overnight into tomorrow morning.
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