‘There is nothing we can do,’ says a South African woman who watched the floodwaters and drives her home

One minute, Zebukukuku and her husband were eating breakfast and a normal second. Next, they fleeed to nothing at the outside of the blankets that were on the back of the floods and swallowed their home.

An elderly couple living near the River in Mthatha, the South Africa City in the province of the Eastern Cape, currently under the World Disaster Misagement as people try to gain deadly floods of the dead week.

The Gluiki said he and her husband had just finished eating when a neighbor invaders them and warned them to run because the water in the river approached houses. From the back window, they would see their garden floods.

“Then we came out of the front door. When we look down the road, water came,” said the germ As it happened Host Nl kӧksal.

The river water nearly looked toward them, but not in noises, but not to greet, as a silent, yet a fearsome, a horse. Within minutes, he was around his house to windows.

“We had to get out of nothing because everything happened soon,” he said. “Nothing we could do.”

‘There was never, disastrous, and it is unworthy’

The worst weather is the main rainfall, strong winds and ice in one of the poorest provinces last week, causing floods left 92 people dead and roads, houses, homes, school. Mtha was the hardest thing.

At least two buses were cleaned by bus in the middle of the missing population according to local media reports, while thousands have been removed.

Authorities have requested citizens to report lost people so that rescuers can better understand how many people wanted.

“Since June 9, the province has disasters who have never seen, catastrophe,” Zillali Williams, the Member of the Province, Thursday during the Memorial Services Service.

“From that day, the Eastern Cape is not the same.”

Hard to rebuild the lost

Life certainly is not the same as the Mbukuku.

He and her husband has since found refuge in the bed of the local bed and breakfast, saying, just five homes from their flood house.

“We are still curving the river. So all curves in the river straight, affected,” she said. “Some houses are on the upper side. Water never reached them.”

When the floodwaters restarted, the couple returned to their house to test damage.

“When my husband opened the front door, the water runs anything. It was strong,” he said. “The frammer was about floating, the seats floated, the cubits floated.”

One of his furnitees, he said, Breaked and turned and turned around.

While the house is still standing, it is very wet and water damaged to go back, especially through the breast.

“We are 70 years – something old. It is very sad,” he said. “How do you meet and restore what has gathered all these years? What do you do?”

The community draws together

Declaring the National Disaster Allocates the Government to release the money for assistance and renewal. But the Power says he did not find much in the help of any government officials. The local councilor calls them, saying, and “promised to do something for our age.”

“We thought they would give us shelter, but they didn’t do it,” he said. Instead, she says, she was her family who helped to find a place to live.

But he said his community – relatives, neighbors, and members of his church – risen to give what it supported what they can do.

“We help one another,” he said.