Where has Cape Town blown to?

Here at http://www.booksmatic.com, I survived this gale force wind that has been blowing here for more that three days on end. I previously wrote to you in one of my blogs how the wind is forced into this tunnel over False Bay between the Hottentots Holland Mountains and The Table Mountain Range.Mostly this wind is known as the Cape Doctor as it cleans the polluted air, but at times this very same wind can create total havoc. Look at the photos below what this wind can do. These photos were taken in Sea Point where the roof blew off.

These photos shows only the damage at one house. Trees were blown over as well as the roof of a local school in Sea Point. The first photo shows where the cladding of the roof, known as mallthoid, blew off and landed at the Koi pond (at the back). In the process a glass roof was damaged and a glass shard killed two Koi fish. The rest of the photos is just an indication how the wind got hold of the roof structure.

Have a look at the photo to get an indication of the velocity of the wind in central Cape Town. People are blown over and some are holding on to a pole to prevent them from being blown over:

Have look at these links:

http://n24.cm/Uf6Q07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQivnYT6Pg

And today? today it is an overcast day with the possibility of rain. Yesterday was the official inauguration of Table Mountain as one of the seven Natural Wonders of the world. The mountain, however was shy to show all its glory when the mayor of Cape Town revealed the sign. Usually the mountain basks in all the glory it can bestow on us.


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And my recipe of the day is?

Baked Brown Pudding

3 cups of flour                                                          3 tablespoons butter

1 1/2 cups sugar                                                       3 tablespoons vinegar 

3 cups milk                                                               3 tablespoons or any syrup

4 eggs                                                                      3 teaspoons cooking (baking) soda

Whisk butter and sugar to cream. Add whisked eggs and then add alternatively portions of flour and milk, always stirring well. Shortly before baking, dissolve the cooking soda in the vinegar. Add this to the mixture, which has to be put into a buttered mold. Bake for 1 1/2 hours in a slow oven (180 deg c or 350 F      

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