Kruger Park roads reopen as flooding subsides

10 March 2016 - 13:58 By TMG Digital

The Sabie and Sand River low water bridges in Skukuza are open after the flood water subsided by Thursday morning‚ the Kruger National Park said. Some bridges and roads in the park - until now ravaged by drought‚ with animal carcasses visible on wildlife drives - overflowed on Wednesday as a result of heavy rainfall.Water arriving in drainage lines around skukuza! Awesome. pic.twitter.com/Fi19mCV2RW — Albie Morkel (@albiemorkel) March 9, 2016async Water has subsided this morning. The Sabie & Sand River low water bridges on H1-2 (between H4/1 - H12) in Skukuza are open. — SANParks (@SANParks) March 10, 2016 async (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Finally!!!!!!!Rain rain and more rain.We are certain that the animals are rejoicing just much as we are. The Sabie River looks amazing now that it's flowing again.Posted by Cattle Baron Skukuza on Wednesday, March 9, 2016..

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