Friday, 7 September 2012

Gauteng Thunder

You know it's spring in Gauteng when darker clouds start to gather during the afternoon and the sky gets a greyish-yellowish tint:

Top - towards the west where the mines are where my man is doing water management (and therefor worried about the pits)
Bottom - Towards the southwest where he was sitting in horrible traffic on the N1!


An even darker cloud, looking like something from  "Independance Day (remember!) moved over. This was at 15h29, and look how dark it got:

The difference 10 minutes makes


And the heavens opened, in buckets.

Streaming down the driveway


Realised we'll need to think about drainage here...


The boys were excited about the hail on the trampoline!


"Look mom, a hail-ball"


Some sad-looking hail-battered flowers


And then the skies were blue again.



You would think we live in Ireland, with all these umbrellas.

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4 comments:

  1. Lynne7 September 2012 at 17:31

    Wow! Kind of scary and exciting at the same time. I would love a good thunderstorm about now, it's so hot here.

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  2. Lori ann8 September 2012 at 10:11

    i really felt like i was there, poor flowers!

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  3. Marieke8 September 2012 at 20:33

    Impressive, we usually don't have that kind of rains here :)

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  4. Julia10 September 2012 at 18:32

    whoa - i don't miss those storms at all ..!! ;)

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