The Gauteng Weather and Storm Warning Thread!

[Necropolis]

Pissing down in Randburg now.

Driving home later is going to suck.

 

[Carr0t]

Apparently it rained 190mm last night near the Sabie area??? I saw a photo of the river but now I can't find it... Anyone else maybe have it?

 

[Ho3n3r]

Raining nicely now.

 

[Stevi]

Just came hard, and still ongoing

Flaccidly, not hard.

,not hard, a nice soft

with the odd spurt .

going to suck.

Is this not a thread about rain warnings in Gauteng? :wtf:

 

[Necropolis]

Is this not a thread about rain warnings in Gauteng? :wtf:

Kindly remove your mind from the gutter.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Kindly remove your mind from the gutter.

 

[LazyLion]

Been raining here for a few hours now in the CBD.

 

[TheJman]

Been raining here for a few hours now in the CBD.

Shew thank goodness! We need this rain!

 

[Solitude]

It's just been drizzling the whole day but the big dark clouds are on their way.



The photo doesn't do it justice.

 

[Rickster]

Unplug your routers before you leave for work.


Thank me later.

 

[Garson007]

Unplug your routers before you leave for work.


Thank me later.

Advice you give someone at 15:35? :wtf:

 

[Vrotappel]

Whenever I think of rain I think of this A.G. Visser Poem

LOL

 

[LazyLion]

Gauteng motorists warned of possible flooding on low-lying highways

JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng motorists are being warned of possible flooding on low lying highways like the N1 and R21.

...

Weather service forecaster Elizabeth Webster said, “Especially road users travelling on the N1 and R21… places on the N1, especially in Johannesburg, they generally flood from very little rain, especially where the road builds up there’s possibly of flooding.”

Read More...
http://ewn.co.za/2016/03/09/Gauteng-motorists-warned-of-flooding-on-low-lying-highways

 

[LazyLion]

Private Security Companies jump in to clear blocked drains so that motorists can drive through [Joburg CBD]

https://www.facebook.com/Intelligen...765631670289/1216764805003705/?type=3&theater

 

[LazyLion]

 

[Rickster]

Advice you give someone at 15:35? :wtf:

Thread only started at 14:00

 

[TheJman]

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Give those men a bells!

 

[Necropolis]

Was bucketing down on my entire route home today - All the way from Randburg to Meyersdal.

 

[pinball wizard]

Private Security Companies jump in to clear blocked drains so that motorists can drive through [Joburg CBD]

It's so weird all these floods these days. It never used to happen in the past when we had this much rain. Must be all the sparrows or something.

Wait, maybe it was just that basic maintenance of the infrastructure was done?

 

[pinball wizard]

Unplug your routers before you leave for work.


Thank me later.

Yeah, we don't all work the night shift at McDonald's. Some of us have been at the salt mines since this morning already....