Rain and storm for Cpt

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COMPUTEK said:
+1 ... Hope council can work faster than they usually do to get this cleared :X3:
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They recently cut some of the roots of some of those trees on that stretch that was pushing up the road surface... Can't say from the video of any of the fallen trees are the ones which have had their root cuts..
 
WAslayer said:
They recently cut some of the roots of some of those trees on that stretch that was pushing up the road surface... Can't say from the video of any of the fallen trees are the ones which have had their root cuts..
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I actually remember that. They had some major pruning and cutting back there a while ago.
 
and theres loads more water coming down into our biggest dam
when i left yesterday morning all the mountains had snow
looking forward to reading next Mondays readings
 
Agent_Smith said:
That wind last night was insane.
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The wind took my wind vein! Looks like I didn’t tighten that sucker enough...oops.

Luckily I did find it and will reinstall during the week.
 
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The informal settlements are having a rough one :(:
Mischka Chachu from the Vygieskraal “Die Vlei” informal settlement in Athlone said: “The community is flooded knee-high and only one truck of black millet was delivered to the area, which is not enough.”
Shacks built near the Diep Rivier in Dunoon were flooded after heavy rainfall at the weekend.

Disaster Risk Management spokesperson Charlotte Powell said Zwelitsha informal settlement in Dunoon had been flooded completely as residents built their dwellings on a floodplain.

“Disaster management has appealed to residents to move their structures out of the floodplain. No engineering will assist this community as a floodplain is a natural water course,” she said.

www.iol.co.za

WATCH: Downpours and gale force winds swamp informal settlements in Cape Town

People across the province were affected by this weekend’s storm and informal settlements were swamped by the heavy downpours, with more heavy rain predicted for today.
www.iol.co.za www.iol.co.za
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zoozi said:
The informal settlements are having a rough one :(:
Mischka Chachu from the Vygieskraal “Die Vlei” informal settlement in Athlone said: “The community is flooded knee-high and only one truck of black millet was delivered to the area, which is not enough.”
Shacks built near the Diep Rivier in Dunoon were flooded after heavy rainfall at the weekend.

Disaster Risk Management spokesperson Charlotte Powell said Zwelitsha informal settlement in Dunoon had been flooded completely as residents built their dwellings on a floodplain.

“Disaster management has appealed to residents to move their structures out of the floodplain. No engineering will assist this community as a floodplain is a natural water course,” she said.

www.iol.co.za

WATCH: Downpours and gale force winds swamp informal settlements in Cape Town

People across the province were affected by this weekend’s storm and informal settlements were swamped by the heavy downpours, with more heavy rain predicted for today.
www.iol.co.za www.iol.co.za
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Puts things into perspective while we sit in our homes and can just grab another jersey/blanket/etc out the cupboard when we're cold...

Even my dog right now has her jersey on, under a blanket on the couch with the gas heater on in front of her.
 
SAguy said:
Puts things into perspective while we sit in our homes and can just grab another jersey/blanket/etc out the cupboard when we're cold...

Even my dog right now has her jersey on, under a blanket on the couch with the gas heater on in front of her.
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And it's bastard cold. That's for sure.

It sometimes just astonishes me that the ANC who are such great pals with China can't just ask them to put up a few of those 2 week residential skyscrapers. I'm not always a fan of China, but some things they do well, and one of them is building cheap, halfway decent residential skyscrapers in record time. I'm sure for a few bil we could get 10 or 20 or so. In any case. Much cheaper per residential unit, and better quality than what we're seeing with RDP houses now.

It would get right around the issue with zoning in informal settlements.

But yeah... Come to think of it. The ANC would probably insist on such projects generating work locally on top of everything. Yet I think without the Chinese work crews those buildings will not rise as cheaply, or as quickly.
 
The Trutherizer said:
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But yeah... Come to think of it. The ANC would probably insist on such projects generating work locally on top of everything. Yet I think without the Chinese work crews those buildings will not rise as cheaply, or as quickly.
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Or, stay up for longer than a few hours.
 
The Trutherizer said:
And it's bastard cold. That's for sure.

It sometimes just astonishes me that the ANC who are such great pals with China can't just ask them to put up a few of those 2 week residential skyscrapers. I'm not always a fan of China, but some things they do well, and one of them is building cheap, halfway decent residential skyscrapers in record time. I'm sure for a few bil we could get 10 or 20 or so. In any case. Much cheaper per residential unit, and better quality than what we're seeing with RDP houses now.

It would get right around the issue with zoning in informal settlements.

But yeah... Come to think of it. The ANC would probably insist on such projects generating work locally on top of everything. Yet I think without the Chinese work crews those buildings will not rise as cheaply, or as quickly.
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Something to understand is the fact that this is the MO of the ANC. People MUST be dependent on them otherwise they become null and void and the people wont vote for them.
 
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