Cape Town is in the middle of a storm. We have been experiencing gale force winds since yesterday morning
Yesterday afternoon (Friday 12th May, ±5 pm) we called the City Council to report water gushing out
from under the tarmac across the road from our house and were told it would be attended to as soon as possible,
but that there were damage reports coming in from all over the city
At 7 pm the repair team arrived
got to work
with spectacular effects
and by 7.30 the broken pipe had been dug up and fixed
Then at about midnight Lynne called them again to report that our electricity had gone awol
and a tree outside our house was interfering with the wires coming into the house
At 5.30 am a council worker called to say he was here to look at the damage
The wires at the top of the street had broken
He checked our board to make sure that all was well
At 8.15 am two trucks with cherry picker apparatus arrived
By 9 am the wires had been reconnected
Then they trimmed the trees
It's so good to live in a city that works
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