Uganda: Floods Paralyse Business
On Monday, business was paralysed after hours of rain in Kampala and some other parts of the country
Zaharah Abigaba | The Monitor in AllAfrica.com | 23 February 2010
The rains that started at around 4am stretched up 5pm, making it hard for city dwellers to report to work on time and hundreds of students were left stranded.
Floods left several people stranded in the flood prone areas of Kawempe, Bwaise, Katwe, Kalerwe and Bugolobi.
Most schools in Bukasa and Kamalimali zones of Kalerwe registered a low turn up, partly because the children could not wade through the flooded roads.
Many areas in Salaama- Munyonyo were flooded too.
Most shops remained closed and in the usually busy down-town Kampala businesses remained closed the whole day.
In Kanungu, a severe hailstorm on Sunday swept through the district, destroying the district administration council hall, following a heavy downpour that lasted almost two hours.
Ms Josephine Kasya, the Kanungu LC5 chairperson said more than seven tonnes of chicken mash supplied to the district by the National Agricultural Advisory Services programme were destroyed.
In Jinja, rain paralysed business and in Gulu, it drizzled from morning till 4pm.
According to the Department of Meteorology, rains are expected to continue up to May "but they will not be disastrous."
"The ongoing rains are expected to continue up to May and we shall give a detailed forecast about the rains next week that will reflect other regions of the country," said Mr Jackson Rwakishaija, the senior communications officer at the Meteorology Department.
According to the weather forecast for January and February released by the department last month parts of Lake Victoria Basin, Central, South Eastern, and South Western regions were expected to continue receiving rainfall (normal to above normal rains) as the ongoing El-Nino continues into the first quarter of 2010.
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