Penny and Fred

When it rains it pours!

Christmas has come early…  Two posts in two day, what will my faithful readers think?

After almost 36 hours of non-stop rain, a rare phenomenon in these parts, it has officially stopped raining, for now!  The rain saga continued with a night of opening and closing windows, numerous occupational health and safety infringements and too many soaked towels to count.  On my list of things to do today, washing…  Yeah for me!!

Last night I was fielding text messages from a friend who informed me that her lovely new villa apartment had been inundated with water up to her ankles and with no way of getting it out.  With the water continuing to rise precariously close to the electrically sockets, she asks me “If the water continues to rise and gets into the electrical sockets, will she get electrocuted?”  Now, I’m no electrician, but anyone in their right mind wouldn’t take the risk.  So she shuts down all of her power and heads upstairs to crash at her neighbours for the night.  Immediate crisis averted…

I woke this morning to yet another frantic text from the same friend with a despereate plea for help from an engineer.  My guess is that the plan to have the water pumped out of the house this morning has somehow gone terribly wrong.  She texts and says she will call in 2 minutes to get some advice from Fred, that was almost an hour ago.  A quick text to check if everything is ok? has gone unanswered, so I guess that’s an answer in itself.

Sadly this friend is not the only one that I know that has been affected by the onslaught of rain.  A colleague who lives over a lake in the southern part of the city, informed us this morning that the water level of the lake has risen so much that her house is now IN the lake. 

So, while I sip on my morning coffee and relay theses stories to you, I am in essence waiting for the call to join the clean up teams…  Stay dry people!!

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