WATCH River Start Flowing For 1st Time In YEARS in Western Cape, South Africa

Extreme weather hit parts of southern Africa in the past 24 hours with heavy rain and flash floods in areas of South Africa, and snow in Lesotho.

Watch the incredible video below, filmed by Dana du Plessis, which shows the Keisies River in Montagu, Western Cape, as it starts to flow again!

Storm Report SA said it was a “textbook flash flood” and that the river was flowing for the first time in three or four years.

In 2014 a similar flash flood washed the bridge away.

WATCH VIDEO: Flash flood in Keisiesriver, Western Cape, South Africa

https://www.facebook.com/stormreportsaOFFICIAL/videos/391425995081169/

Meanwhile, less than three hours away in Hartenbos, homes and businesses were flooded by the heavy rains in the southern Cape. The SA Weather Service (SAWS) had issued warnings of the heavy rains expected over “the Overberg, Eden District and the south-eastern parts of the Cape Winelands of the Western Cape as well as the south coast and adjacent interior of the Eastern Cape”.

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Other footage in the past 24 hours include this from Derek Bekker of heavy rain over Monte Christo in Hartenbos:

https://www.facebook.com/stormreportsaOFFICIAL/videos/441906740008103/

And this from Boela du Plessis of excessive flooding in Hartenbos:

https://www.facebook.com/stormreportsaOFFICIAL/videos/502238310596576/

Meanwhile there’s snow falling over Afriski Mountain Resort:

https://www.facebook.com/stormreportsaOFFICIAL/videos/408395153076077/