{"id":232,"date":"2008-09-01T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T05:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-09-01T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T08:04:13","slug":"the-cape-of-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"The Cape of Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August went out with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetimes.co.za\/?fSectionId=&amp;fArticleId=vn20080901053620289C894306\" target=\"_blank\">bit of a blow<\/a> which some people called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/capetowndailyphotoextras.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/worst-storm-in-7-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">the worst in 7 years<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Valley on Saturday :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300633r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"s6300633r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300633r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300633r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300633r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300634r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-234\" title=\"s6300634r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300634r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300634r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300634r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our house doesn&#8217;t have storm water gullies, the gutters vent straight down the side of the house. If it rains hard, we have a mini-moat around the house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300630r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-235\" title=\"s6300630r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300630r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300630r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300630r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300629r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-236\" title=\"s6300629r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300629r-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300629r-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300629r.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300628r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-237\" title=\"s6300628r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300628r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300628r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300628r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately it&#8217;s sand all the way down, so the water drains quickly.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the sea was still rough. (For comparison, I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/p9120094r.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this photo<\/a> on the rocks on the left hand side of the first picture below, on a nice day (September 13th) in 2004).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300637r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" title=\"s6300637r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300637r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300637r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300637r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300648r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-239\" title=\"s6300648r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300648r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300648r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/s6300648r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In typical Cape Town fashion, it clears up, the sun comes out, and it&#8217;s beautiful. With a flippen cold wind, I must say, but beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August went out with a bit of a blow which some people called &#8220;the worst in 7 years&#8220;. Sun Valley on Saturday : Our house doesn&#8217;t have storm water gullies, the gutters vent straight down the side of the house. If it rains hard, we have a mini-moat around the house. Fortunately it&#8217;s sand all the way down, so the water drains quickly. On Sunday the sea was still rough. (For comparison, I took this photo on the rocks on the left hand side of the first picture below, on a nice day (September 13th) in 2004). In typical Cape&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}