Rain and storm for Cpt

Gordon_R

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I'm not prone to exaggeration, but that was one of the heaviest downpours I have seen! I gave my char a lift to Claremont, and we drove through multiple puddles, blocked drains, and half-flooded roads. In a few places water was coming up through manhole covers...

The rain gauge in Kenilworth showed 22mm since this morning. Edit: Another 4mm after lunch.

Canal leading from Claremont towards Rondebosch:

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Edit:: Once the clouds lifted, some epic waterfalls became visible on the slopes of Table Mountain!
 
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Just drove from Springbok to Stellies, it started bucketing just outside Malmesbury - heavy rain, with visibility down to 80m sometimes.

Constant rain in Stellenbosch
 

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When was this taken? That poor nissan1400 is soaked inside is all I can see
it cant be too old coz that house with the green roof use to say Penter Venter Properties on it, and the photo is now taken outside his new premises which is 69 Beach Road if i recall correctly. My dad had a business there in the 80s
 

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It seems it rained around Strand. It came down hard, but hardly anything like that. Earlier today, the siren at Rheinmetall Denel sounded loudley as the downpour started, maybe they cancelled something.

I wonder how Victoria is looking like in Somerset West...
 

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It seems it rained around Strand. It came down hard, but hardly anything like that. Earlier today, the siren at Rheinmetall Denel sounded loudley as the downpour started, maybe they cancelled something.

I wonder how Victoria is looking like in Somerset West...
Yeah it came down very hard around lunch time here on the Lourensford River
 
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