I give up with weather forecasts. There are so many available that it is hard to know which one to choose. Generally I choose the Norwegian one, but there have been so many misses lately that I am more inclined to pick a local forecast. Even those differ vastly and I can only hope that although none of them are forecasting any significant rainfall over Cape Town in the foreseeable (to whom?) future, they will all be completely wrong and a stray cloud will miraculously appear and dump three weeks of rain on us. It seems the only solution, as the authorities have no plan in place to provide its citizens with a supply of water any time soon if Facebook is to be believed.
Apparently the answer to showering and bathing woes is to book into an expensive hotel, where money can buy anything, or at least until the tap no longer yields water. Will these hotels refund their guests if they can't bath? Are they using threadbare towels for three days to save vast volumes of our vital resource? Will they just go home and complain that this is Africa? Probably.
When the water runs out, it won't be a gradual process. It will be nothing from the tap. The mind boggles that there are not ships already anchored off the Peninsula desalinating like crazy. It happens elsewhere. Do our politicians have any idea of the extent of the human disaster that is staring us in the face while political posturing and evil agendas take pride of place over the electorate? I believe they do.
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