The East Wind Of Today...

[Michael Alexander]

Well there's a storm a brewing, Right now the wind is thundering through our town at about 48km an hours..... from the east, it is carrying half of the Namib desert with it.... I last saw wind and sand like this back in 1979....

Then power to the town has gone down, Luckily here at SPar we are running on a Generator....... the rest of the Business's are all shutdown....

Now, here it comes..... all you current city fathers.. here is a lesson from the  original town planners...

See all those pretty tree's to the east and South of our town, the one's that over the last decade were left to die and never replaced... well they had a purpose..... and by the end of today , you will learn what they were there for......

You should have kept those windbreaks there, they are as vital as our power supply....

Pics to follow!

[Michael Alexander]

Webcam at the airport, the one that is still working...

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This wind should peak at around 15h00 this afternoon, gusting a right gale....

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[Mike Voden (RIP)]

Very good pics Mike but pray tell me in the last photo is the SPAR trolley there as an advert or did the wind push it there.........?????

[Michael Alexander]

Nope Mike, you caught me out, that was put there as an advert, we also put the spar flags and the spar building there also...

[Michael Alexander]

Here are some awesome pics from local roving photographer, Jacques Kemp.

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