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Plettenberg Bay storm damage. Spot the difference..

December 5th, 2007 · Comments

Here’s two pictures of Plettenberg Bay’s Lookout beach area. Can you spot the difference?

Plettenberg Bay placemark (.kmz) on Google Earth

Further reading (all from about 24/25th November):
Storm: 2 dead, 1 500 evacuated
Fleeing the floods
South Africa: Floods Swallow Plett Beach

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  • martins
    floods in mzansi unlikely to happen but due to climate change we are in danger.
  • David Ritchie
    hey... thescott??
    i live in plettenberg bay and the weather and sea here has been unforgiving the last two days and milkwood manor almost got washed away 2day... i have some photos if you would like for your site?? how can i get them to you? please reply to david@xnets.co.za
  • James
    Hectic! I'm glad I don't own property on that shoreline. It must be pretty nice to have the sea right on your doorstep though (but scary too).
  • Goodness GRACIOUS me!!! I knew it was bad but had no idea it was this bad!
  • I thought you may have been washed away there in George too!
  • Geez, by the looks of the surrounding towns, I'm amazed that we didn't! Thankfully, we came off light this year.

    This is the second year running that we experienced floods! Last year struck George much more heavily. We had something like 400mm rain in 24 hours last year. This year it was almost the same but in a period of about 5 days, so it was not so devastating.

    Even now, the weather is weird. We had one summers day this week, the rest of the time it was cold and rainy. Most weird.
  • As long as it's fixed by the 26th when I head through there from Cape Town!
  • ... and that's in the rich part of town...
  • Hectic. Is this for real...?
  • My cousin from Knysna said that Lookout beach was no more, so I presume this
    photo just backs it up!

    At least you can fish from the Lookout deck while drinking a beer.
  • It's not until you see the photos that it all really becomes reality... crazy.
  • Holy crap
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