“There was nothing we could do,” says a woman from South Africa.

One moment, Zukiswa Mbuku and her husband were eating breakfast and spent on the normal Tuesday. The next day, they flee without anything but clothes on their backs as the floods raging their home swallowed.

The elderly couple lives near a river in MTHATHA, the town of South Africa in the coastal province of Cape, which is currently in a state of national disaster where people are trying to recover from fatal floods last week.

Moukou says that she and her husband have just finished eating when one of the neighbors ran and warned them of running because the water from the river was quickly approaching the homes. From the back window, they can already see their garden flood.

“Then we got out of the front door. When we looked down the road, the water was coming,” Mouboko said. As it happens Nil Kӧksal host.

She said that the river water seemed to be approximately towards them, but without sound, like a silent and frightening horse. Within minutes, he surrounded their home to the windows.

“We had to rush without taking anything because everything happened very quickly,” she said. “There was nothing that we could do.”

“Unprecedented, catastrophic and unimaginable”

The harsh weather front brought heavy rains, strong winds and snow to one of the poorest South Africa provinces last week, causing a flood that caused 92 people to be damaged by killing, roads, homes, schools and other infrastructure. Mthatha was the most difficult blow.

At least two children in the schools who were washed on a bus are among the unlimited number of missing persons according to local media reports, while thousands have been displaced since then.

The authorities appealed to the residents to report missing persons so that the rescuers could understand the number of people who were looking for them better.

“Since June 9, this province has been severely subjected to unprecedented, catastrophic and unprecedented disasters,” Zolly Williams, a member of the CEO of the Province’s Legislative Council, said on Thursday during a memorial ceremony in Mthatha to the victims.

“Since that day, the eastern cave was not the same.”

A struggle to rebuild what was lost

Life is definitely not the same for MPOKO.

She says that she and her husband have since found a shelter in a bed and a local breakfast, she says, just five homes from their water flooded.

“We are in the river curve. So all the houses in the curve before the river straightness were affected,” she said. “Other homes on the upper side. The water has never reached them.”

When the flood water retreated, the couple returned to their home to assess the damage.

“When my husband opened the front door, the water rushed like anything. It was strong,” she said. “The refrigerator was floating, the chairs were floating, and the sofas were floating.”

She said that some of her furniture had separated from the house.

While the house still exists, it is still very wet and water is damaged to go back, especially with MBUKU.

She said, “We are seventy years old. It is a very shock.” “How do you collect and restore what you have collected throughout these years? What do you do?”

Society collects together

The announcement of a national catastrophe allows the government to release relief and rehabilitation financing. But Mouboa says she has not received much help from any government official. She says that one of the local advisers called them, and “they promised to do something because of our time.”

“We thought it would provide us with a residence, but they did not do it,” she said. Instead, it was her family who helped find her a place to stay.

But she says that her community – relatives, neighbors and members of her church – ascended to provide the support they can.

“We are helping each other,” she said.