#welovebuckets

We probably have a lightning storm about once a year in Cape Town and they are super subdued (nothing like the Gauteng summer storms), so when an unexpected storm, with lightning, loud thunder, hard rain and hail to boot comes along in the middle of a serious drought, then it is party time for Captonians (or at least those who aren’t afraid of thunder because they’ve never heard it in their lives).

The water poured down, into the rain tanks, overflowing the gutters, streaming through the garden, and we caught what we could, bucketed it into the pond, added overflows to rain water tanks and had fun getting wet in the unexpected rain.

This was after the storm, but the hail was the biggest hail I’ve seen in Cape Town – about 1-2cm diameter.