Mini Tornado!

Yup you read it right we have had a Tornado sweep through the valley at the base of the hill where we live. This all happened on Friday 14th November, I collect KB from school about 12.20pm on a Friday and we went for our usual end of week treat 'wraps' and ice cream. When we came out of the restaurant the sky was a very 'weird' colour black and it seemed to be 'moving' towards us. With the freakish weather we've been having we thought nothing of it but said we'd better get home before the rain came otherwise we'd be soaked, plus Indi is petrified of thunder and lightning. We got in about 1.50pm and rushed around closing windows etc. as the wind seemed to have built up a bit. It had been very hot in the morning... 10 mins later the heavens opened we had a clap of thunder and a huge down pour, we thought nothing of it, of course as usual the electricity went off, it always does during thunder storms!!! Another 10 mins passed and the sun came out and 'dried up all the rain' it was over the usual Thunder type storm they are very frequent here so nothing more was said.

I had to take KB out to his extra classes on Friday 3.30pm and everywhere looked windswept, we had to drive down into Krantzkloof Gorge and I was shocked, there were trees uprooted as you will see in the 1 photo with Aunty I. standing next to the tree. These photos were taken on Saturday morning, it was chaos everywhere. The news has reported 8 people killed and thousand of Rands worth of damage, apparently it took 7 minutes from start to finish to sweep through the valley, the sights are horrific.

Roof tiles were ripped off, some houses even lost all their roof. Windows broken and the most frightening was how the trees were just ripped out of the ground like match sticks. As you look down itno the valley you can see the path of the tornado as there are just stumps left where there once were trees... some having stood there for years.

All of this happened 1/4 mile from our house. They are even declaring part of the area as a natural disater zone. Never been heard of before in this area...

I tell you the earths weather patterns are seriously changing, on Friday night the fog was so thick we could not even see to the bottom of the driveway... But as you can see by Saturdays photos sunshine everywhere, today fog, rain and mist again.

So you still want to visit SA?

JJ I was pleased to hear from 'cuddle bunny' that you are keeping up to date with our goings on, feel free to leave any comments if you want.

Other than our serioulsy freekish weather we've not been up to much, only 3 weekends before Paul arrives... Looking forward to his visit, so if any of you want to save on postage get down to our place before the 12th!

Tuesday craft group enjoy your day this Tuesday coming, wish I could join you for a fun morning of crafts, GR make sure you let me know if you book any more dates for 2009, cos I'd like to keep up to date with what you're doing.

Your Quote for today: Look at everything in life as if you were seeing it either for the first or the last time in life! And enjoy every moment.