Monumental weather today.
Over 100mm of rain, winds gusting to 120kph, just absolute carnage.
Biggest storm this century for the Mother City, allegedly.
I’m finding it hard to disagree.
Floods everywhere, trees down – one killing a motorist just around the corner from us – branches all over the place. It’s going to take a while to clear up.
School went ahead for us, but plenty didn’t. And everyone has the day off tomorrow…
…which seems weird, given that today was horrific and dangerous, and tomorrow is just going to be wholly unpleasant. But I doubt that many students will be complaining.
There was a 1½ hour period this morning where nothing could land at Cape Town airport:
Imagine leaving Johannesburg, and then – 4 hours later – ending up in… Johannesburg.
Heartbreakingly awful. Thoughts and prayers.
Locally, there is plenty of damage, with trees down all over the neighbourhood. With the polyphagous shot hole borer beetle epidemic having weakened many of the oak trees around the area, the winds were just too much for a lot of them, and the results are pretty devastating.
If the forecast is correct (and it’s been unerringly accurate today), then we’re just in for about 20mm of rain tomorrow, which is still a lot, unless you’ve had 110mm the previous day, in which case you feel like grabbing your swimsuit and then heading to the beach.
Hopefully, with less wind and less rain, there will be an opportunity to start the clear up: not least for me in our garden. Although, maybe I actually quite like our new rim-flow pool.