I don’t remember, apart from perhaps Cyclone Domoina in 1984, when I lived in Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, a time when there has been so much rain.  That of course was an intense amount of rain over three or four days, but what we have experienced now for almost two weeks is something that I really do not remember in Johannesburg.  We often do have wet weekends during March and April, as we say goodbye to the summer rains, and they almost always coincide with Club Championships at most local golf courses – as they did again this year, but I still don’t remember it raining so heavily for 14 days.  

My garden is absolutely saturated, my basement area, which was not properly built or designed – lawyers are still to decide which it is, if not both – is wet again and I like most people would actually like just a bit of break from the rain right now!  It is easy for us, who live in secure brick structures, and who drive to work in cars, and then work in a safe and secure area and a well-ventilated building, of course to forget that there are many others who are no ways as lucky as us.  The vast majority of our country is living in shacks, and are surrounded by pools of water.  Those living on the edge of rivers, as is common in many townships, have either seen their houses flooded or in some cases washed away and of course there has been an increase in drowning’s all over South Africa.  Still, I cannot help but hope that today is a changing point in the weather and that this season will come to pass.