Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Wild Weather Conditions in Cape Town

The "heavy weather warning" is continuing in Cape Town today. The forecast is for up to 70 mm of rain and gusting winds of 85 km/hr again! Power outages were wide spread throughout the Cape Town region last night. The storm is causing huge challenges for the port and the cargo ships. Last night three ships almost capsized while many ships lost cargo into the ocean. A local paper ignited a flurry of excitement when they proclaimed the lost cargo was bottles of beer from Europe. This in turn caused many fortune seekers to comb the beaches for the missing beer. The missing cargo was identified as being non-alcoholic and drifted out to the ocean and not on the beaches.

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