I mean, we were warned. And that Level 6 warning was upped to a Level 9(!) for the Overberg.
But that was the one of the biggest, wettest storms to hit the Western Cape in the (almost) 20 years that I have lived here. Cape Town was bad (really bad), but a bit further south and east was worse.
Bredasdorp is completely cut off, as are Struisbaai, Arniston and Elim. But that doesn’t make a lot of difference, given that Cape Town to Caledon seems to be impossibly impassable as well. We were planning to go out to Agulhas this coming weekend, but now that all clearly depends on how quickly stuff drains down there.
The N2 has disappeared a bit at Bot River.
The road to Struisbaai
The road to Bredasdorp
Even the alternative routes around these problem areas are closed. Stormsvlei, Napier, Stanford – all no through roads at the moment.
Nearer home, as the weather gradually began to improve, we headed down to the V&A Waterfront, where I took this in the somewhat gloomy light.
No Galaxy A33 5G here. This was taken with an actual camera.
Sunshine tomorrow, we are told. We need it.