Rain and storm for Cpt

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Live cam, dunno for how long

[video=youtube;uyGs6wGTDiU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGs6wGTDiU[/video]
 
Storms these days are nowhere near as good as in the 80's and I blame the fall of the Serviette Union.
 
I remember years ago it used to rain for days non stop, now its just these showers that come and go.
 
FYI guys, so you know:

Update from CoCT's Disaster Risk Management Centre

The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Centre is awaiting an update from the South African Weather Service (SAWS) about the frontal system currently affecting the metropole and beyond. In the interim, we appeal to the public to remain indoors if possible and to steer clear of coastal areas as the frontal system is coinciding with a spring tide, resulting in massive swells.

The Disaster Risk Management Centre continues its assessment of informal settlements to determine the extent to which people have been affected. At last count, 97 dwellings were reported flooded in Macassar Village, leaving 400 people affected. The South African Red Cross Society is providing humanitarian relief, although no emergency shelter has been activated. In Hout Bay, 362 dwellings were affected in Disa Park and Madiba Square. Emergency shelter has been activated in the Green Hall and NGO partner, HDI is providing humanitarian relief.

Other City departments are clearing away uprooted trees and other blockages that have occurred as a result of the rain and gale-force winds and attending to residents in Council-owned properties and those in informal settlements requiring assistance with damage to their structures.

There has been one confirmed fatality within the metropole; a 60-year-old man died earlier today when a wall collapsed onto his wendy house. The City notes reports of four additional fatalities as a result of a fire; however, please note that these occurred on Simonsvlei Farm in the Drakenstein Municipality.

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Garson007 said:
Jeez, hectic. Tygerberg?

Edit: Nah, can't be. I can see it still standing.
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The concrete tower (we built all those years ago 1970's) is The Telkom Kanonkop microwave repeater site on the microwave route from Cape town to Kimberley. Those other useless masts are the one put up by amateurs who have now hopefully seen the error of their ways! Serves them right for not understanding what needs to be done when building masts.
 
I think Cape Town was the proverbial teacup...

All the hype and the BS came to nothing more than your average standard CT winter rain"storm".
 
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