Flooding in Vredehoek… what’s next – locusts?

This was the unhappy sight when I got in this evening. A muddy hallway, and my lawn washed out and over the flowers and through the fence.

Not too much mud in the house, but a lot more than normal.
The garden is completely stuffed.

The slightly funny thing about this is that my colleagues in the office were sending me photos of De Waal drive flooded today and saying that my house had washed away. I shrugged it off, saying that I lived on a hill, it was only the valley-dwellers in trouble.
The photos of the highway should have tipped me off that there could be problems, even on a hill.

Wasn’t long ago that we had to be evacuated from our house when a fire came down off the mountain.

This is the photo I took from my brother’s house looking back towards mine. You can’t see it because it’s covered by smoke and flames.

I don’t even want to know what’s next… toads? locusts? blood from the sky?