26th July 2011

Tonight...exhausted, my lip dragging on the floor. So cold, very cold.

Marooned in the snow

In buses, trucks, cars and homes thousands of people have been stuck in small towns or on roadsides today as heavy snowfall caused a number of major routes across the country to be closed.

And three truck drivers were marooned for hours in their overturned vehicles this morning as emergency workers attempted to plough through kilometres of snow to rescue them.

An intensely cold weather system hovering over the country left some of the high-lying areas of the country covered in snow, with Van Reenen’s Pass in KwaZulu-Natal ankle-deep in thick icy powder.

The unusual chill and mild rainstorms resulted in frosted, icy roads, with three trucks jackknifing and overturning near the pass in the early hours of this morning.

Emergency workers attempted to get to the overturned trucks for hours, but the deep snow meant ambulances couldn’t get to the possibly injured drivers.