It’s been a while since we experienced a real Cape Town winter.

After years of drought, this one is back with a bang and wreaking havoc across Cape Town.

Those living near the coast seem to be getting the worst of it.

On Tuesday morning, upmarket restaurant On The Rocks suffered structural damage to its building.

The manager, Annarette Blom, told News24 that no one was injured, but that they lost a fair amount of furniture and other bits of the restaurant.

“The canopy on one of our three restaurants was thrown off the roof and landed two streets away from the restaurant. Luckily, no one was injured,” Blom added.

For the family of Afrikaans singer Louis Geldenhuys, who is currently touring in Pretoria, the weather was also a serious ordeal.

TimesLIVE reporting here:

[He] took to Facebook and said: “Jesus please protect my family. A storm just hit our house. I am not even there … ”

His family was at home when the storm hit, tearing out glass windows in an outdoor area and blowing away outside furniture.

“Louis, our entire f****n roof is gone,” a woman is heard saying in a version of the clip with audio.

A second woman is heard saying: “Oh donner the roof blew away. Oh f**k there goes the windows, oh there goes the benches. You can’t go outside, you will be blown away.”

This video captures the whole ordeal, complete with crying baby, and may well replace ‘My F*k, Marelize’ as the new rallying cry when things go badly wrong:

Cpt is getting to Tsunami level soon, this is Blouberg earlier this afternoon and the winds/rain aren’t slowing down‍♂️‍♂️‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/pfuDjBkMqL

— Yeyeye (@StheSgubhu) July 23, 2019

‘N vet f*kop, indeed.

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) had on Monday forecast strong to gale force winds with wind speeds of between 65km and 75km expected for Cape Town and surrounds, particularly on Tuesday.

Blom said that a boat at one of the other restaurants had been turned over.

While the wind was gushing through, “customers could not leave for about 40 minutes,” Blom revealed.

The SAWS also warned that the extreme weather is expected to continue today (Wednesday) as two cold fronts settle in the metropole.

Meanwhile, the City of Cape Town’s disaster risk management spokesperson Charlotte Powell had earlier warned property owners, particularly along the coast to ready themselves for more bad weather.

“Property owners along the coast need to be prepared for possible storm surge impacts to their property,” Powell said.

If you’re in need of help, you can call the City’s Public Emergency Communication Centre on 021 480 7700 from a cellphone, or on 107 from a landline.

Stay safe and warm, keep your pets inside, and drop off any spare blankets and windbreakers at your nearest homeless shelter.

[source:news24]