Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Fire on Table Mountain!



Scenes from our new window.



People whetting their houses on De Waal drive.



Dante's Inferno

Woke up with smoke filled lungs in my bed at 1am. A fire had started near UCT and burned down half the mountain in about 2 hours in the gale force winds. I was running around the neighbourhood with tears streaming down my eyes taking photographs. There was general chaos around the neighbourhood especially around the houses up next to De Waal drive. Flames and ash were licking at the houses. This morning it sounds like a war zone as sirens and helicopters go past. And the mountain is a burned out husk.

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