Flooding of Nwaswitshaka Research Camp


HUT 4. Evacuation of Guest Hut No 4 (entrance to the left) on 7 February 2000 at roughly nine o'clock in the morning.
(Notice Hut No 3 on the right in the background.)
 


HUTS 2 & 3. Flooding of Hut No 3 (left) and evacuation of Hut No 2 (right) (ca. 10:00). Samuel Nkuna is in the foreground.
(Hut 3 was later inundated so that only the tip of its roof was visible.)
 


HUT 5. Squaredavel No 5 at noon that day. This residence was filled to almost 3 m above floor level at the peak of the flood (ca. 17:00).
(Nwaswitshaka River in the background.)
 
 

EVENTS PHOTOGRAPHED AND RECORDED BY VICTOR MEYER  2000
Picture enhancement (where possible) courtesy of Dylan du Toit

DATA RECOVERYMessage from Sakkie on Cyclone Names
 
 

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