Albert Hammond, truly articulate American singer and songwriter, boasts of the great weather in southern California in the lyrics ‘It never rains in southern California. Seems I’ve often heard that kind of thing before. But girl did they not warn you? It pours, it pours.’
Seems like Mr Hammond could have been writing about the South Coast.
Much as the rain is most welcome in a country rated in the world as water-challenged, when do we get some sun?
After all, the South Coast is renowned as a holiday destination, with warm dry winters and hot and wet summers, because it is in a summer rainfall belt.
I have only been here since beginning of August this year and I am waiting for summer to really arrive.
Although the mornings are most definitely not half as cold as where we lived in the Free State, where the minimum on winter mornings would be minus eight degrees Celsius, here I am certainly feeling the cool in the morning.
Of course, rain is expected but maybe not in such abundance, as for three consecutive days we have twenty millimetres of the soaking kind, which is wonderful for the garden.
Apparently, according to those educated people who monitor weather patterns, we are under the spell of La Nina.
This particular lady is the provider of moist upper air conditions which ultimately gives us rain in abundance, case in point recently being George which was almost washed into the sea.
Of course, all this rain, if correctly captured, keeps the innumerable private jojo tanks filled to the brim, which in this particular portion of South Africa is a godsend, because of the number of times that water pipes rupture and need repair/replacement.
When break in supply occurs, one could be without life sustaining water for quite a while and we all know, one can survive without food but water is an essential to life.
I previously touched on my considered opinion about flying to Mars. How about using this money to develop and build competent desalination plants? So much salt water, but not a drop of it to drink.
BIO
Trevor Barnes is a retired gentleman, who recently entered the club of septuagenarians. He was raised and schooled in Port Elizabeth at Grey High School until Std. 8 and finishing his matric year at Pretoria Boys High School. He trained as a cartographer and spent his productive working years on diamond mines or signage companies. His wife and he raised twin sons who presently are working in the UK and UAE respectively. His interests are history, exploring South Africa and meeting people.
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