Thread:Mr Creeper500/@comment-27231734-20151217184507

It's still worth talking about.

My story begins with me, and my family, all of us happy at a local restaurant about 30 km out of town, everything going perfect, food, drinks and perfect opportunities to catch photos of the massive bushveld storm looming over.

About half way through the meal we get news, a tornado has hit town! A tornado! In the north west of Limpopo South Africa!(Where if your not dying in a drought, your drowning in a flood, and if your not being boiled alive, your being frozen to death)

Regardless of our natural bad weather, a tornado was something new, and because of this, we thought it was just the locals making a tornado out of a breeze, so we continued on and then left at about 18:00 GMT+2

After about 10 minutes we were in town and starting to see the error of our ways(and the amount of intelligents we have, as most of the buildings in town are brick). And, of course, our street took the most damage, especially our driveway, which was completely closed off by trees, trees and more trees.

We started clearing branches at about 18:20 and "finished" at 19:30, we probably still have at least 4 hours of work waiting, but at least our truck is back in the garage having only taken damage to the tires, mainly because the road was slippery and the tree heavy(we're talking about a truck with a 3.5 towing capacity). And then having to saw the tree up with a hand saw, while the storm was still raging around us, luckely no lightning strike victims have been reported yet and we currently have a much better view of the mountains.

That being said, things could be worse, this could have happened at 1 am on Monday, because on Monday we are planning to leave for Phalaborwa, which is a good 7 hour drive away. Or this could be Happy Tree Town and everyone could be dead.

And now, time for my second cup of coffee in a less than adequite bid to relax, or maybe a second shower, anyway, until next time!  