Twas a Dark and Stormy Night!

The God of Rain has heard our prayers! However, so did the God of Storms and Wild Weather, and the pair of them have sent us a weekend of violent wind, rain and storms! We had lightning and thunder last night, unheard of in our part of the world, and as I write this it is raining again! Or is that still? Our monthly average for June is 68 mm, and so far this month (it's only the 2nd today) we have had 51mm!

Our waterlogged veranda. Even the wooden duck has had enough!

Yesterday (and today!) we lit the fire at about 10 a.m. and spent the day inside looking out! Alfie was extremely reluctant to go outside and had to be persuaded. I had visions of him using the cats litter tray, they were queueing up to use it!

'Lake Pauline' at the end of the drive way!

We lay in bed last night not only listening to the rain and the wind, but listening to our roof do a fair amount of rattling and banging and this morning we were amazed and extremely pleased to find that we were dry inside!

The next storm approaching! Look at the sea!

As our neighbour texted Rob when Rob sent him the rainfall figures, ' Wat n storm, ek het in Saldanha wakker geword saam met die wind!' ('What a storm, I woke up in Saldanha together with the wind!') and our neighbour on the corner had at least 22 mm in their daughter's bedroom and foam from the sea blew onto the veranda. That's quite a way to blow as you see from the photo below!

The foam blew onto the Scotts' veranda!

The cats coped in various ways with the weather and the noise. Basil carried on as usual, everywhere at the same time and Dopey lay on the rug next to the fire. Dilbert is a strange lad. He loves us at night, comes in and spends time on my lap, purrs like a traction engine and is really part of the family. However, when the sun comes up (or when it's supposed to come up), he heads outside, will not let us touch him and turns feral! He's out now in all the chaos. Daffy simply disappears. I was so worried about him right through the night as he was nowhere in sight and I was convinced that he was out in it all. This morning he was dry and sitting at the study door so had obviously been in all night!

Rob said that we should have called those two Jekyll and Hide!!