\u201cEk het besef dat ek omring moes wees deur engele.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So s\u00ea Mazelle Engelbrecht, \u2019n onderwyseres by die Laerskool Gimnasium, nadat \u2019n reusetak van \u2019n eikeboom haar motor so te s\u00ea platgedruk het terwyl sy agter die stuur daarvan gesit het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit het gebeur toe \u2019n windstorm Donderdag 23 Junie chaos gesaai het in die Drakenstein-streek en \u2019n spoor van verwoesting gelaat het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die skielike storm met buitengewone rukwinde het onder meer tot heelwat skade aan bome gelei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mazelle s\u00ea sy het die skoolterrein kort n\u00e1 13:00 verlaat en vanuit die parkeerterrein by Gimnasiumstraat ingedraai toe sy \u2019n slag hoor en \u2019n boom se reusetak haar motor getref het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het nie eens die tak hoor breek totdat dit my motor getref het nie. Dit was \u2019n geweldige skok en ek het eers geen benul gehad wat gebeur het nie en het net begin gil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mazelle vertel voorts dat werknemers van die nabygele\u00eb Nashua haar dadelik te hulp gesnel het en dat die nooddienste blitsvinnig op die toneel was. \u201cMy motordak was platgedruk en die ruite is verpletter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die nooddienste het gehelp om Mazelle uit die motor te bevry en sy het byna ongedeerd daaruit gestap, met net \u2019n paar skrapies aan haar hande weens gebreekte glas, en natuurlik het sy erg aan skok gely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToe ek later na die wrak van my motor by die paneelklopper gaan kyk, het ek eers besef watter noue ontkoming ek gehad het. Die motor word afgeskryf en hoewel dit vir my \u2019n finansi\u00eble verlies beteken, is ek regtigwaar dankbaar dat nie ek of iemand anders hierdeur beseer is nie, of nog erger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBaie dankie aan almal wat my so spoedig gehelp en bygestaan het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog 16 gevalle van groot skade is aangemeld in Paarl, Mbekweni en Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vier motors, sowel as heinings en eiendomsgrensmure, is beskadig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Dorpstraat, Paarl, is \u2019n pragtige koorsboom deur die storm vernietig. \u2019n Buurman het vertel hierdie boom is in 1984 voor die Knopiesfabriek geplant en sy grootte vir daardie spesifieke doringboomspesie was uniek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En in Jan Phillipsplein het nog \u2019n boom bo-op die dak van \u2019n motor beland. Die munisipaliteit het dadelik met skoonmaak-operasies begin wat tot in die vroe\u00eb oggendure van die volgende dag voortgeduur het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
.<\/span> A sudden wind storm which hit the Valley on Thursday caused chaos, with various trees being uptrooted and elec\u00adtricity poles flattened. 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