Mudslides have closed Chapman's Peak Drive for at least the rest of the week. The mud trapped motorist Linton Konemann as he drove home to Noordhoek from Camps Bay at about midnight on Saturday, and he had to call a friend to help him."It looked like the road had crumbled in places. There was mud and rocks all over," said Konemann.Professor John Compton, a lecturer in geochemistry at UCT, said it would take up to three years before vegetation recovered sufficiently from March's fires to keep mountainside soil in place."When you burn above ground and only have soil exposed, it is vulnerable to erosion," said Compton. "[This is] one of the potential hazards following a major fire."So when you have intense rainfall it can result in major movement of the soil, and that can result in mudslides or debris flow, which includes rocks."The spokesman for the Western Cape department of transport and public works, Byron La Hoe, said mud and debris slides were impossible to predict."More heavy rains could have a similar effect, [so] a full assessment will be made at the end of the week to determine how the mountain has performed," he said.The road was previously closed between 2000 and 2003...