Cape Town's Rain And Winter Weather.

Winter is definitely Mother Nature's bastard love child, the annoying brat you don't really like, but you kind of feel guilty about knocking up his mom and not making an honest woman out of her, so you allow the kid to act like an arsehole and cause shit.

It's July again, and just like last year, Winter is being a complete arsehole and causing shit again, as these pics clearly show.


Basic Delivery: This probably wasn't the free running water the residents living here had in mind. This is actually a two-story house, showing you just how bad the flooding has become.


Amphibious Vehicles: There is nothing a vehicle owner loves more, than driving his car through 15 inches of water. They love it, and their car's certainly love it too.


Seafront Property: Residents decide to whip out the trusty fishing boat, as buying bread at the local corner shop suddenly seemed like a bit of a mission.


Optical Illusion: This isn't a vlei or a lake, it's actually an open field. The little air bubbles you see on the right is the football team who were still trying to play soccer there, as it was the cup final, and they couldn't really reschedule. You may be interested to know that the home team eventually won on penalties.


Shark Warning: The water levels of course meant that shark attacks would be on the increase, so everyone decided to stay indoors.

Seriously, if you're feeling cold under your three blankets with the heater on, think how shit some other Capetonians are feeling right about now. At last count, there were 16 000 people who were displaced by the weather, so let's all be decent about it and give away some of our blankets. Pick n Pay are usually pretty jacked up when it comes to this sort of thing, so if you see a large box at your local store, you'll know what to do.



[ | ]

Did you enjoy this post? Of course you did! Now join my growing army of subscribers and get free updates in your Inbox whenever I write something breathtakingly new. Become cool by association and get ShaunOakes.com in your Inbox.