Hail Storm Hits the Community.

Last week saw a very unseasonal and unusual hail storm hit the Dumphries Community.

As if life was not hard enough already, an unseasonal “Hail Strom” hit the Dumphries Community area, causing widespread damage and tragically, loss of life. At least two people were killed when they were hit by hail stones larger than tennis balls. The damage to property was severe, with at least two hundred houses being destroyed in the area stretching from Bushbuck Ridge to Dumphries. The storm was so localised it caused havoc less than a kilometre from the Reserve, but no damage to any infrastructure within.

At Welani Primary school, one of the roofs blew off, next door to the library. The school lost hundreds of books, not to mention the corrugated iron scattered up in trees. Thank goodness the children are on school holidays at the moment. The principal of the school as already approached the Social Welfare department in the hopes of them helping out to have it replaced.

At Jeremiah Créche, where we are busy building the new Day Care Centre, most of the top soil to complete the foundations that we had delivered last week blew away, so the builders are busy replacing the foundations…

It always seems like a case of three steps forward and two steps back, but we will get there in the end, of that I have no doubt.