WINDY DAY IN CAPE TOWN

I WOKE UP ON THURSDAY WITH THE SOUND OF THE HOWLING WIND.
THE METEOROLOGICAL PREDICTIONS WARNED US ABOUT THIS 65 KM/H SPEED, SO WE WERE EXPECTING IT. THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES FOR MANY MONTHS AND IT MADE ITS ENTRANCE IN FULL FORCE. DRIVING TO MY MEETING THAT MORNING, I REGRETTED NOT HAVIN G A CAMERA WITH ME. THE TREES WITH THEIR BRANCHES SHAKING TO AND FRO SEEMED TO HOLD ON TO EVERYTHING THEY HAD NO TO LOSE ONE OF THEIR PRECIOUS BRANCHES. EVERYWHERE, NEWSPAPERS AND PLASTIC BAGS, NOT FIRMLY HELD DOWN, FLEW AT THE WILL OF THE POWERFUL GUSTS WHICH LIFTED THEM OFF E PUSHED THEM UP AND DOWN AND IN EVERY DIRECTION. PEOPLE WALKING TO WORK OR JUST ON THEIR WAY TO SOMEWHERE, UPPERBODY BENT FORWARD, HAIR FLYING WILDLY IN DISARRAY, HOLDING A SCARF TIGHT AROUND THEIR NECK, CAREFULLY PUT ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER WITH A STRAINED FACIAL EXPRESSION.
AND ALL ALONG, THE FRIGHTENING HOWL OF A POWERFUL FORCE CONFIDENT NO ONE CAN STOP IT OR COMPETE FOR THIS SHOW OF SUPREMACY.