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WINTER WOOLIES
05 July 2011, 17:04
ScriptusWINTER WOOLIES
Those of you who intend visiting our part of the world and are dreaming of bright blue winter skies and sharp sunlight, ummm, well, wish pretty darn hard! 'Cause right now, it's bleak. We have endured continuous strong cold winds for a month and a half now and some heavy rain a short while ago, bringing rivers down in flood.
Slightly after 06:00 this morning, all hell broke lose. Well it sounded like it. Wind, hail and buckets of rain. At home, a little over 60mm in just over an hour.
A subway fairly close to my home.
The bowling greens at Cambridge Sports Club not too far from my home. Water polo anyone.
Downstairs at the Vincent Park Mall. The white stuff is hail.
Hail and floodwater at the mall.
Hail at one of the entrances to the mall.The rubbish is a sign of two maladies afflicting us at the moment. A general population who dump their trash where ever and a muncipality which cares not for its responsibilities.
A big old Wild Fig tree blown over. The end of a giant.
It must be this Global Warming thing? ? ?
I was supposed to have left this morning to spend a few days looking for a bushbuck to bring home.
Maybe Thursday or Friday.
05 July 2011, 17:14
shakariEish...... we've had it cold up here but NOTHING like that......... you'd better go and buy some flood damaged longs in the sales!
05 July 2011, 21:58
Neil-PHIt was one hell of a storm.....my usual 20 minute ride to town this morning took an hour and a half.
We had no hail on the farm,but damage to the dam wall continues as it overflows !!!
05 July 2011, 22:46
L. David KeithFrom drought to flood, you guys have been through it lately. I hope the water recedes rapidly. Good luck on the Bushbuck!
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Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running......
"If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you."
05 July 2011, 22:49
ScriptusAnd the forecast for tomorrow is.... wait... more rain and gale force winds.
Steve, I have made several enquiries, but it appears that a lot of shops have started stocking their summer ranges.
06 July 2011, 16:55
Neil-PHSUMMER RANGES - Yeah right......swimming costumes only !!
06 July 2011, 17:11
shakariA beautiful summer's day here today chaps.
clear blue skies, about 22C and BRIGHT sunshine..... oh and a bloody great bushfire is raging out of control just down the road!
06 July 2011, 17:49
Scriptusquote:
Originally posted by shakari:
A beautiful summer's day here today chaps.
clear blue skies, about 22C and BRIGHT sunshine..... oh and a bloody great bushfire is raging out of control just down the road!
The fire should warm things up a bit.
Right now there is a howling gale driving a freezing almost sleet like rain. Shite, is it cold. Want to put the heater on, but with the massive increases in power tarrifs, I am a bit loth to.
David, I have several chances coming up in the next few weeks, so hopefully Dinah smiles my way.
06 July 2011, 18:16
shakariI know what you mean mate..... every time I go out, all the prices have gone up and filling my Jeep is a nucking fightmare!
07 July 2011, 02:18
ScriptusThe long term weather forecast is for sunshine from Friday afternoon into next week. Yiihaah!! !
07 July 2011, 02:44
L. David Keithquote:
David, I have several chances coming up in the next few weeks, so hopefully Dinah smiles my way.
I hope she does and you bag some excellent rams. Good hunting!
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Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt:
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more:
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added
http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#926103994110 days in the Stormberg Mountains
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson
Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running......
"If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you."