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Die hele Voortrekkerstraat, die dorp se hoofstraat, is oorstroom en motors het uit verskillende rigtings in lang rye opgedam.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wessels s\u00ea ook die munisipaliteit het Dinsdag reeds met skoonmaakwerk in di\u00e9 dorp aan die voet van die Olifantsrivier- berge begin.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die omvang van die skade sou nog bepaal word &#8220;Skoonmaakbedrywighede sal oor die volgende paar dae voortduur om te verseker dat alle dienste ten volle werk,&#8221; het die munisipaliteit vroe\u00ebr in &#8216;n verklaring ges\u00ea.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens die Porterville- ontspanningsfasiliteit, &#8216;n organi- sasie sonder wingoogmerk, was die oorstromings &#8220;erger as die orkaan&#8221; wat hul gebou se dak &#8216;n jaar gelede afgewaai het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As ons terugkyk, was die orkaan niks in vergelyking hiermee [die oorstroming] nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Gister [Dinsdag 8 April] het die hemel oopgegaan en ons het in &#8216;n kort tydjie &#8216;n uiterste volume water ervaar, wat veroorsaak het dat die rivier sy walle oorstroom het en die gevolge is verwoestend,&#8221; lui &#8216;n inskrywing op hul Facebook-blad. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ons het die swaarste daarvan gekry aangesien ons op die rivier en by die laagste punt van die skouterrein is. Ons heinings is af en ons speelterrein het weggespoel.&#8221; \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die munisipaliteit het almal bedank wat gehelp het met die skoonmakery en om hulpbronne soos kos, matrasse en warm komberse vir die inwoners wat die ergste geraak is, te verskaf.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vergaderings oor die ge\u00efntegreerde ontwikkelingsplan wat vir Woensdag en Donderdag 9 en 10 April beplan is, moes gekanselleer word.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Charlotte Lesch<\/strong> berig sommige landbouers het op hul beurt matige tot erge verspoe- lings op hul lande ervaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens die graanprodusent Hanro Knoetzen van Porterville, het lande plek-plek redelik erg\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>verspoel. &#8220;Die gebiede wat verlede jaar ook verspoel het en intussen reggemaak is, het weer skade gely.&#8221; \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knoetzen s\u00ea egter hulle is dankbaar dat daar nog sowat twee weke oor is om die verspoelde gebiede te herstel voordat koring geplant word. 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