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Cape Storm

Chris Hall55 Comments

It moaned and raged across the south coast, right up to the highest mountains.

The storm lashed and buffeted the tallest trees, traumatising animals and people living in their shacks.

The birds, shaking with fear, crept in the hollows and bushes, while the squirrels hunkered down in the deep dreys as the huge palm tree swayed around our garden.

From morning to night the storm raged, and raged again; we looked out into the street where the fire and rescue truck had managed to take down a broken great tree, what a relief, but not before we saw terror in the faces of several people

And finally, in the morning, there was no wind or rain.

At least we all have our houses – the walls, the doors, the windows and the roofs – but everything else is such a mess, and we will only talk about the present at the moment.

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Di of Pensitivity 101
Wednesday’s Three Things Challenge: TRAUMA, FEAR, TERROR

Denise Farley of Girlie On The Edge
Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt: PRESENT


By the way, this was all true and it was just two weeks ago.

55 thoughts on “Cape Storm”

  1. 😱 I was wondering if that really happened, because I remember years ago you wrote about going on a safari type trip and I had to ask if it was real or fiction. That’s because your fiction is so realistic. That must have been a scary storm! Glad you guys are okay! 😊🐱🐼

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    • Most of the things I’ve done have been largely true, although I might’ve stretched it a bit. This one was completely true, but at least it’s mostly okay now. We were very lucky to stay inside though.

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  2. “Rain does not fall on one roof alone” as the African saying goes.
    You for sure took a walk on the wild side, Chris… transformed it into ink
    ( told ya, you’re back😎)

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  5. Bloody hell Chris! That’s scary! Glad you’re OK.
    Hubby and I can remember getting outside to secure fence panels in high winds when we lived in the cottage.
    We’ve seen so much rain here recently and the wind just will not let up. We can hear the sea and it really rages. Looks like we’re in for another noisy night, but at least the fences here are a different design and stay up!!! Of course it helps that posts have been reinforced and we have become experts at using concrete post mix!
    Keep safe.

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  10. “Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.“

    Damn! don’cha love those songs that reading the title starts our internal karaoke machines?

    plus… this would never be writing today if for no other reasons that the abbreviation convention for the states is so not sufficiently rhythmic

    thanks for the ear worm! (sincerely, not sarcastically)

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    • I saw Lou Reed in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (22nd April 2005) how about that!
      The nearest I got to Nelson was The Specials when we sang many times in the student bar in 1984 (what a long time ago).

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