Prathna Sewprasad (middle) and her four daughters. From left: Anjana, Anjali, Tanishka and Hiranya.
Two years after a tornado tore through Tongaat, Prathna Sewprasad still remembers the terrifying moments she thought she might lose everything.
Sewprasad, 29, was at her family home on Krishna Puri Road in Sandfields with her four daughters on June 3. Her husband was working in Ballito.
"I was giving my youngest daughter, who was a year old at the time, a bath, while the three other girls watched television. Heavy rain quickly turned into hailstones. I then heard a loud noise like an aeroplane approaching. It got dark and windy, and the windows rattled. Roof tiles were flying through the air at my neighbour's property. That is when I knew something serious was happening."
Acting on instinct, she grabbed her daughter straight out of the bath and the family fled into a bedroom.
