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| Sea Point promenade, 3 pm, 7 June. |
AFTER drought conditions for most of the summer and an unusually warm autumn, a massive storm from rumbled in from the Atlantic, slamming into the Western Cape - and Cape Town - with rare force. Gusts of over 100 kmh accompanied by torrential rain, gave relief but the cold added to the misery of those in informal settlements and on the streets. Further east, fires raged in places like Knysna. All signs of global warming, the general unpredictability of weather and other climatic factors. However, with the storm came 12 metre seas and chaos as a Spring tide caused a huge surge and spectacular imagery in places such as Sea Point.
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| A lone seagull tries not to fly backwards to Milnerton as Thermompalye maxes at 15 foot. |
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| The boiler at Thermopalye is at the bottom of that wave. |
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| The tide starts to surge. |
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| Foam biking. |
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| Beach Road gets slammed. It was later closed. |
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| The foam runners. |
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| The promenade, usually peaceful, gets violent. |
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| Hard-core photographer in the eye of the storm. |
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| Madiba's glasses get a short-sighted view of the storm. |
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| The swell in Table Bay towards Milnerton. Note the size of the swells compared to the containers. |
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Slam dunk Sea Point.
Photos Copyright Shafiq Morton |
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