2019 Durban Easter floods

During the 2019 Easter weekend, the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, experienced severe flooding, caused by torrential rain brought on by a steep upper air trough, which deepened into low pressure in the upper levels of the atmosphere, and impacted the city and its surrounding areas starting 18 April 2019.[2] The floods resulted in at least 70 deaths caused by collapsed buildings, mudslides and sinkholes. It was one of the deadliest disasters to hit the country in the 2010s. Quotes We're traumatised, we can't even eat. For the whole day I didn't eat because I don't know what to do. Boniswa Shangase said I woke up around 2am and noticed everything right below my bed covered in water, and my daughter was sleeping next to me Mthembu explained. External link Category:2010s floods Category:Disasters in Africa Category:2010s in South Africa