Winter in Cape Town means dodging the mangled carcasses of umbrellas that fought the wind and lost.
We get some pretty extreme winds here, and a special shout-out to the people of Vredehoek for their battle against the breeze,
They aren’t, however, as extreme as the winds that accompanied a passing storm in Turkey recently.
CNN reports that CCTV footage captured one man, whose attempts to keep his umbrella grounded resulted in him soaring off into the air.
Check it out:
One might even say those winds were supercalafrag…
Nah, it isn’t worth it. You get the idea.
[source:cnn]
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