In between some serious work, I spent quite a time today looking at all the hilarious videos and photos that people have been posting of Capetonians coping with the galeforce wind we are having here. The funny thing about the wind is, when it is just blowing hard day after day, everyone moans and is bad tempered, but when it blows galeforce for days, and you have to hang on the poles just to stay upright, it seems that our sense of humour prevails and everybody laughs together as they blow this way and that like a bunch of inebriates.
It brings to mind the time a double-decker bus was blown over on the Foreshore, the most notorious wind tunnel in Cape Town, together with several light trucks such as those that deliver potato chips and have no substance to hold them down.
I once crossed Adderley Street in some rather high platform heels and was toppled like a tree. I just lay there in the middle of the road, laughing until somebody picked me up. I never wore those shoes again, needless to say.
A wind speed of 164km/hr was recorded on top of Table Mountain in the last 24 hours - that is quite impressive and surely another good reason for it to be one of the new Wonders of the World!
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