DEAR Editor,-
I have lived on the South Coast for 25 years and have seldom seen hail. The hail experienced on the coast recently was large, mothball size, not as big as ‘up-country’ hail, I realise, but for the coast, big! Not a single photograph? Did your photographer miss a trick here?
Apparently, the hail damaged the lifts at the Port Shepstone Regional Hospital? Surely lift hoists and motors (on the roof, I presume) are protected against rain, hail, snow and the like? How can a large hospital be without access to the two top floors/wards for weeks or months? It is ridiculous! Even if spare parts have to be sourced from Europe, are they arriving by sea, because we do have air freight these days?
DJ OWEN
Anerley
**Editors note: Photographs of the hail were posted on the Herald’s Facebook and online pages. It was ‘old’ news by the following week.
