After the floods in Stellenbosch (looks like we made it out of there just in time), and the continuous rainfall over the weekend (and quite a bit on either side of it), I was expecting some dramatic upturn in the dam levels.
After all, we have had a total of 148mm of rain in 72 hours (Friday 8am – Monday 8am), and everything around this particular corner of the continent is fully saturated. Damp. Soggy.
And the dams? UP – obviously – by a whole…
0.1%
[sad trombone]
Oh.
That’s not to be sniffed at (although I did very much sniff at it when I saw it), being almost 900 million litres or basically 1 day’s supply to the Mother City. But it is a little underwhelming*.
Thankfully, it’s not the true result of the weekend’s downpours.
A lot of the rain didn’t fall directly into the dams, and so it will take its time to get there. Next week’s reading should hopefully reflect the effects of the recent weather a little better.
Because honestly, why did we have to endure the pain of that weekend for absolutely no gain whatsoever?
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