Cape Town - The Storm in Cape Town. What woke up the whole family
Hey everyone! Zak here from a very stormy Cape Town!
It's in the news everywhere if you would like to look at the absolute devastation that the storm has wrecked in Cape Town. Luckily for our little family, there was no injuries, accidents or property damage.
The same cannot be said for the rest of Cape Town with massive flooding, fire and wind damage. People that I know where affected badly by the storm and the whole province of the Western Cape was on high alert of all sorts of things.
The Cape Peninsula seemed to be the worst affected that I can see.
I still worked in high winds on Saturday. Sunday I was at home and then Monday(yesterday) we worked in absolute rainy wet weather. I got soaked quite a few times.
Sunday night the above picture is probably what woke us up. A sound that was akin to a lot of stuff crashing off a shelf at the same time - but a shelf of an impossible size shook the whole house wide awake.
Kids awake, car alarm set off and blaring at 2am in the morning, I had bolted up and had to do a quick check around the house while I was doing so.
I settled in to sleep and had the rainy day at work.
My lead technician was sick and at lunch, went to the doctor and got booked off for two days. He will not be coming in to work today and it is crunch time.
The other team went off early with both members having symptoms for being sick.
Despite being within close proximity to them and many others, I am not sick at all and have no symptoms. Too busy to be sick!
Well, let me go get dressed and get to site. It is 6am right now and I need to be there before 7am to start my day. I have no idea if I will even have staff on site to do the work today.
Have a safe day wherever you are!
Cheers!
@zakludick
😯 Is that a pic you took during the thunderstorm? Wow.
Nooooo, but that IS what woke us up that night. No, I quote the source of the image if you want to go look at it closely. Its an amazing shot.
No... I was trying to sleep. !LOL
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Yup... and I still had to work 11 hours on Monday!
Taking off only for management, learned that lesson years ago with flooding. Given this the name "Black South-Easter" normal folk must simply carry on as best they are able.
Wow! Glad you are all safe.
Thank you so much. Yeah, it was a bit hairy working on the ship Monday, today was better though!
Stunning power of nature, hope you are alright!
Indeed! Yeah, we are alright.
Goodness gracious. I have never heard thunder like that. It was insane! And we were the lucky ones? If you look at storm damage accross the Cape, we only really got shouted at by mother nature. It was scary enough though. Winter is definitely here.
Indeed. We were seriously lucky
Dude the weather over the weekend was gnarly! Wind, rain, lightning, hail! It was like a mini apocalypse in some places 🙈
Indeed. It was not a catastrophe in Table View, but it was very windy, rainy and lightningy
That was quite hectic, thought for some time are roof will blow off! 😮
then again I did grow up in the highlands , where thunder like that is common , and getting struck by lighting ! ⚡
Indeed! It was hectic!