The Midlands Herald Page 5 — 6th June 2008

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photographs of
Read all about it!
The 1987 Floods the effect of the
September 1987
floods on the page
below were taken EVERDON
by editor Russell
ESTATE
in Pictures Barnes’ late
brother, Graham
(pictured at right). Tel: 033-330 2071
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The Howick Museum has a display of articles and photographs of the “1987
Wishing Russell a Complete
Floods”. The display is up from May to September. Natural disasters are
studied as part of the Gr. 7 Geography curriculum, and local schools are and Speedy Recovery —
encouraged to use the display at the museum as an additional resource. and to seeing him soon !
Museum: Tel. 033-239 9240; fax 033-330 8051; curator@netfocus.co.za

Below: A crowd of people looks on at the floodwaters that spilled over into the BIG OR SMALL
Below: A closer look at today’s Mahindra property, then occupied by the
industrial area, today occupied by Mahindra (at right) and Afgri (at left). Impendle Bus Company, whose buses are mostly under water here. One bus STEVE’S HOME REPAIRS
was washed over the Falls — and it has never been found, to date.
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FLOORING
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Road was flooded to the top of Tel/Fax 033-330 5066 • Cell: 084-430 4260
the first floor. 84 Main Street, Howick (in O&S Electrical
Left: The Moonwalk Road building) • e-Mail:brentwood@telkomsa.net
signpost peers out — but only
just ! — from the waters.
Below left and right: The two
pictures below, if joined at the
telegraph pole, show a
panorama of the flood that
includes the Midmar Dam wall
and houses in Jupiter and ENGINEERING
Columbia roads.
Bottom left: Mills Falls (behind AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALISTS
trees at left) disappears under
the deluge of Umgeni River.
Petrol and diesel engine
Bottom right: Residents of rebuilding, cylinder head
upper Oakleigh Driver might be overhauls, reboring and
forgiven for thinking that they crank-grinding
really did have a waterfront !
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