Cape Town residents sitting on top of their cars. Image via Twitter @natural79939854
‘Looks like a tsunami’: South Africans react to high tides in Cape Town
WATCH VIDEOS: South Africans took to social media to react to high tides in Gordons Bay in the Western Cape on Saturday, 16 September.
Cape Town residents sitting on top of their cars. Image via Twitter @natural79939854
Social media went into a frenzy on Saturday when a number of vehicles got washed into the sea during a high tide in Gordon’s Bay in the Western Cape.
ALSO READ: Watch | Worst driver of the week: Cape Town motorist gets car stuck in the sea
HIGH TIDES IN CAPE TOWN
The SABC reports that beaches in Cape Town are closed as they are deemed unsafe due to rough water conditions in the Western Cape. The municipality reveals that Victoria Bay and Herold Bay beaches in particular have been badly affected.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has urged anglers, bathers and boaters to exercise extreme caution amid new moon spring high tides this weekend and into the new week.
NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon reveals that spring tides cause higher-than-normal high tides and lower-than-normal low tides.
“This, coupled with gale force winds and high seas we are experiencing around the coast, we appeal to the public to be cautious.”
Lambinon adds that high tides will peak over the next few days around 4.30am, getting gradually later each day, and at around 5pm in the afternoon, also getting gradually later each day.
ALSO READ: NSRI cautions public on rip currents – here’s how to stay safe
‘IT’S NOT A TSUNAMI’
Malissa Smuts Rosslee: “It’s not a tsunami. It’s a spring tide storm.”
@ReenvalSA: “Correction….”storm surge” not tsunami.”
@more_kgosi: “Such a little tsunami. Looks more like a high tide. But asikho lapho. Black people would have long time ran away.”
Gladwyn White: “The devastating floods experienced in Libya added by the current tsunami lookalike in Cape Town and flooding, clearly signifying the arrival of the end.”
ALSO READ: City of Cape Town load shedding schedule – SATURDAY
ALSO READ:NSRI warns against full moon spring tides, stronger rip currents
