Snow Snarls South African Traffic
For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />Snow in South Africa - it's a rare sight for this time of year - and there was enough of it to cause traffic problems in the third largest city of Durban.<br /><br />An unusually chilly cold front caused snow to fall in parts of South Africa on Monday, bringing joy to some, but causing traffic problems.<br /><br />The main highway joining the provinces of Guateng and KwaZulu-Natal, called the N3, was shut down for parts of Monday morning, due to a thick white blanket.<br /><br />The part of the route that bore the brunt of the snow and rain was the Van Reenen's Pass - a mountainous road along the 250-kilometer stretch between Johannesburg and Durban.<br /><br />The road was reopened in the late afternoon.<br /><br />Residents of Mooiriver, near the Van Reenen's Pass, are used to the cold weather.<br /><br />Last year they experienced equally cold temperatures and even thicker snowfall.<br /><br />But the sight is still somewhat a novelty in a country where sub-zero daytime temperatures are rare.<br /><br />The Robinsons, whose garden was covered in snow, enjoyed a day of building snowmen, but also had to clear up damage caused by the bad weather.<br /><br />[Carl Robinson, Mooiriver Resident]:<br />"In the garden, all the branches that are broken off the trees. I had to pick all those up. Gutters that were broken. Just a lot of extra stuff."<br /><br />His young daughter, Stacey saw things in a different light;<br /><br />[Stacey Robinson, Mooiriver Resident]:<br />"I love the snow because I get to play around with my family and have snowball fights."<br /><br />The snowfall was substantially lighter in Johannesburg, but residents also enjoyed the rare sight.<br /><br />Many stopped their cars for a closer look and children enjoyed throwing snowballs at one another.<br /><br />The cold weather is expected to continue into Tuesday.
