Large parts of Roodepoort were without power for most of Thursday afternoon. Traffic was backed up on all major roads, causing serious delays. It is understood that a the outage was caused by the storm.
One of residents who was affected by the outage is Yvonne Saunders. “It usually takes me 10 minutes to get home, but yesterday I was stuck in traffic for over an hour because all traffic lights were off,” said the furious Saunders.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that a lightning struck a substation in Kloofendaal and also left trees on top of some over head lines in the area, leading to the outage.
City Power is still to give a full case of what transpired yesterday.
The Roodepoort Northsider asked residents what they had experienced via facebook and this is what our residents said:
