The day started out as normal, a balmy laidback late-spring day with nothing exciting planned.
I enjoyed a healthy breakfast of fresh fruit salad and yogurt, served in my Mom-in-law's very old dessert bowl.
My voile curtains had decided to say goodbye as the hot sun burnt holes in them, so off we went to the local mall to buy replacements.
It was past lunchtime by the time we finished stocking up on food and buying curtains.
We gave in to temptation as the smell of muffins baking from the Mugg n Bean Coffee Shop fills almost every corner of our local small shopping mall.
My treat lunch was cheesecake and iced coffee, yep, I indulged; although I ended up eating only half a slice. Hubby was sensible and ordered a Bacon & Cheese Muffin with Cappuccino.
We had our dinner as usual, and settled in to watch a TV series; there was calm outside and indoors!
The lights flickered a couple of times and then total darkness.
The emergency lights came on and that's when we heard it...
Hot gusty winds came from nowhere, furiously blowing dry hot air like I'd never experienced!
Within seconds it worsened and we ran around closing windows, the raging wind was so hot that I honestly thought there was a fire nearby, but all I could see were bolts of lightning lighting up the sky.
We thought we were in for a helluva storm, and prepared ourselves for the worst; took us back to the night of the April mudslides, but this time, the rain stayed away.
The wind suddenly stopped, dead silence, and we heaved a sigh of relief, but then it came back again, sounding even more furious!
I told my husband we were not going to sleep in our bedroom as we have a massive tree right outside our window that we'd been wanting to cut back, but never got around to it, as it will be a costly exercise! Thankfully the tree stood still and no branches broke off.
Suddenly, as if nothing had taken place, all was calm, not a sign of lightning and no rain came!
It was quite surreal.
Messages started coming in that there had been an explosion at a major substation that supplies most of Durban's electricity, 50% of our metro was in darkness.
Videos and photos were circulating about the explosion and the sky lit up in colours from the explosion and lightning as well; many thought it was an alien invasion or Armageddon, it was VERY unnerving, to say the least!
We expected to be in darkness and minus power for a very long time, but a couple of hours later the power came back on, and everything returned to normal.
It was too late by then to finish our series, which was getting really exciting, by the way, so tonight will be popcorn night, as we have a load of catching up to do!
Heat Bursts
This morning we learned that we'd actually experienced a rare meteorological event called a Heat Burst which some agencies are trying to fob off as 'Berg winds'; something we often experience, but what happened last night certainly was no Berg wind, this was something none of us have ever lived through!
Trees had blown over elsewhere, blocking roads, but we only had a pool and garden full of bougainvillea flowers this morning, needing a ton of sweeping!
The Jasmine survived and is still full of flowers with a heady scent, especially strong in the evening.
Last thought - these two banners, one in English and the other in Isizulu, hang in the church Dad Malan and Mom Lily were very much a part of, helping in their outreach programs. The sad funeral of a young man who was tragically gunned down was held there - his sin?
He had tried to help rehabilitate young drug addicts in his area, but this got in the way of ruthless people!
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