Battening down the hatches

Just in case you are wondering where I am...

(Updated to add: Fellow South African blogger Kerry-Anne took some amazing photos of the storm yesterday. Have a look at them here Cape Town Daily Photo Extras: Worst storm in 7 years?   Storm still going strong!)

THE Western Cape is bracing itself for what experts predict could be the worst storm in almost 10 years.

The South African Weather Service predicted strong gale force westerly winds of 65km/h over parts of the province. Storm strength winds in excess of 80km/h were expected along the Western Cape coast.

"Very rough seas with destructive waves in excess of 7m, coinciding with spring high tides, are expected along the Western Cape coast, spreading to Durban by Sunday evening. Heavy falls of rain are expected in places over the western parts of the Western Cape overnight [Saturday]," the national warning read.

Snowfalls were also predicted on mountains and high ground above 4000ft (1219m).

He also predicted that homes along the Atlantic seaboard could be damaged and flooded.

The severe weather was expected to ease by Monday.

read more here and here

Comments

[Robin from Israel]

Stafe safe my friend! (What a terrible week for storms - you, the Caribbean... thank goodness we're in the dry season here - all we've got is dust dust dust!)

PS Back in Israel again now, will check with some friends re IF connections.

[blackbird]

OH!
I'll be thinking of you!

[Orange]

Hope your hatches are all battened now.

Hurricane Gustav is heading to New Orleans in a couple days, and the city is evacuating this weekend. I think I heard that Gustav was dropping 25 inches of rain on Jamaica the other day, which would be about 64 cm. Can you imagine?

By the way, it's a beautiful, sunny, late-summer day in Chicago!

[Kristin]

Stay safe!

[JaneW]

We are nearish the corner of Devil's Peak here - our neighbour's wall blew down last night. It sounded like a hurricane out there... complete with eerie silence, no wind and no rain as the 'eye' passed at about 3am.

[D]

Weather around the world this year is so crazy. We live about an hours north east of Las Vegas and we have been having crazy flash flooding and winds. Very crazy. Anyhow, I hope the storms pass through without taking any lives.

[Macca]

You call that a storm!!???? That's a regular weekend in NZ at the moment. We've had terrible storms this year - massive road slips closing the main highways North and South, houses washed into the sea, lives lost and stock dead in the hundreds. We are absolutely fed up with it.