Twenty-four little hours.
Brought the smoke and the fires.
Where there used to be green.
Before and after – The Devils Peak Fire
Houses in High Cape and Vredehoek (where I used to live) were evacuated at 1 o’clock this morning as high winds threatened drive the fire into residential areas. Spectacular iol pictures.
Today, it’s just a matter of damping down what’s left of the vegetation and putting out the fires in the kloofs on the Groote Schuur Estate. Just for an idea of scale, those three “little” fires you can see up at the top of the mountain have flames up to five storeys high according to the Cape Town Fire Department spokesman on the radio. S’big, then.
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Geez, the poor freaking mountain. What is going on down there? It is unlikely to be “natural” right?
People think fynbos need fire to regenerate and blah blah, but not fires this freqquent.
po´s last blog post was: Words don’t come easy (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)
Po > Bergies near Rhodes Mem are being the top suspects right now.
when in doubt, blame the bergies.
Or English tourists who like to flick butts.
Reflex > Well – it does seem to be them that start the fires, so it’s not a bad place to begin…
Except Bergies can’t afford attorneys to get them off.
There is certainly a lesson to be learnt here then… Dont do the crime if you cant afford to pay the bribe?
A shared theme then, something in common with Lord Ahmed the texting peer.
Reflex/JPD > I wonder how much JZ can afford?
Just putting the question out there…
JZ got a special deal, he got 2 attorneys for the price of 1.
The attorney so nice they named him twice.