The AGM for 2012 has come and gone and we have four new councillors in our midst. We not only welcome them but also wish them well in their new portfolios. We also say goodbye to John Williscroft ZS6EF and Henry Chamberlain ZS1AAZ and we thank them, especially Henry, who served us for a long time as Secretary!
Coming back to current affairs, we had a week of floods, floods and more floods around the world – and not forgetting our own Karroo with almost unseasonal rain coming down in buckets over a wide area!
The countries that suffered flooding were Haiti, Kenya, Columbia, Russia and Paraguay!
For Haiti, it’s the beginning of their rainy season bringing with misery to a country still suffering from the effects of the devastating earth quake of 2010. Nine people died and many displaced.
Kenya suffered heavy rain in two regions which ended in 10 deaths and many displaced by wash-a way’s.
In the south of Columbia, 17 people lost their lives and as many as 56000 were displaced by exceptionally heavy rains.
In Paraguay, 2 were killed and about 5000 displaced due to heavy rain and finally in Russia, east of Belarus in the Russian Federation, 2600 were displaced by heavy rain in that region.
Locally, the S. A. Weather Bureau issued a warning of heavy rain stretching from as far north as Upington right through the Karroo to the Southern Cape and east through the Eastern Cape.
Although no reports of severe flooding were received, it was reported that thunder storm activity in the Western Cape is on the increase. This is a phenomenon that was predicted by a weather expert a few years back and seems to be materialising. Hail was also reported from Franschhoek.
Winter is now fast approaching and we await the first real cold front with its snow and cold weather!
Reporting for Hamnet, this is Francois Botha – ZS6BUU.
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