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Tar lifts off road as rain pours

'Heavy rain caused heavy disasters'.

Hartzriver Street in Toekomsrus had it’s tar lifted off the surface of the road as a result of this past weekend’s storm.

The road also was severely flooded.

Mduduzi Mthethwa, a second year journalism and media studies student caught the incident on camera.

“Heavy rain caused heavy disasters,” is what Mthewthwa called the images.

The town also was hit by heavy a heavy hailstorm on Saturday. The hail stones that fell were as big as mothballs and covered the town’s streets in a slippery white blanket.

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