Cape Town – Fires are still roaring across the Cape Town south peninsula on this very hot 42 degree C, Tuesday morning, with latest developments tracking the blaze through the Hout Bay, Tokai and Fish Hoek areas.
Can you imagine what this will do to our environment?
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Jou foto is natuurlik uitsonderlik mooi!
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Baie dankie!
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Wow that is hot for Cape Town. When I lived there in the ’70s-’80s it never went much above 30 degrees and I did witness one major mountain fire on Muizenberg, but nothing like this one! Has property been damaged? I know the flora will regenerate, in fact a lot of it depends on fires to do that, but there will be an enormous loss of small mammal and reptile life. So sad.
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It was extremely hot! A bit of a heat wave! There are a few properties that are badly damaged, they are now busy assessing it. Most of the fires are out, but with today’s wind it flared up in a few places! Yes it is sad 😦
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I can hardly bear to look at these photos. It must be so awful for the people who live close by, and also for the firemen. I hope the fires are soon put out, and that rain will come to settle the smokey air and bring life to the ground once more.
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They have been at it for 4 days now! Hopefully they will be able to put them out today!
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These are incredible pictures, though I can only imagine how horrendous it must be for the people living there.
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It must be terrifying !!
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Al wat ek kan se is dis aaklig, maak nie saak hoe jy daarna kyk nie. Hoop dit word gou geblus.
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Ek stem saam! Ons bid ook daarvoor! Het netnou ‘n paar druppels gereen!
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DIe fynbos plantegroei behoort vinnig te herstel na die brande, maar die skade aan menslike infrastruktuur gaan lank vat om te herstel. Ons hou duim vas dat die weerstoestande sal verbeter en die brandbestryders dinge dan vinnig onder beheer sal kry.
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Dis waar! Die arme brandbestryders wat gister in die versengende hitte moes werk! Genadiglik is dit koeler vandag! Daar is nog steeds vure!!!
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Hard to look at those photos of fire. So awful
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It makes me sad too!
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I have heard about them from here. The environment always regenerates from fires. It just takes time, but is so sad to see. We are having problems in Canterbury with fires too. It is all so dry there.
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The environment will regenerate as soon as we get rain! Our rainy season is still to come! It has been extremely windy this year and dried it out even more!
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Dit maak mens bekommerd.
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Ja, dis nou weer mens, dier EN plantegroei wat ly.
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Verseker!! So vreesaanjaend!
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oh my! that is so scary, Aletta. am glad you and your family are safe.
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thank you Lola! Yes we are safe!
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Terrifying… there were some major fires in S. CA due to the drought.
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It is very scary. We are in our dry season and with the heat like today, it is not easy to kill the fires!
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Kevin said that Cape Town was the hottest spot in the country today. Supposedly got to 42℃. We only went to 32℃
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It did! It was incredibly warm!! Still 33 in the house!
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Wow, Aletta! Did you take any of these? I am so sad for the homeowners! Scary.
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It must be very scary! They did not open their schools today. I added a photo that I took, the others are from the News 24 page.
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great response to the challenge. very sad for the countryside – is this unusual for that area?. i only ask because several areas of the south west (USA) get summer fires on a reasonably regular basis.
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I is unusual to get one so big! It was very windy when this one started. The last big one like this was 15 years ago!
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Not good at all, horrible and I can only imagine how it feels to live close to the fires…
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I am so thankful that we live a bit further away! Must be devastating.
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