Chicago the "Windy City" my ass! Cape Town takes that honor...

Howdy All,

 

I know that Chicago is suppose to be the "Windy City", and it can definitely be windy there.  However, Cape Town is the windiest city that I call recall visiting.  The five days we have been here have all be windy with pretty large gusts.  Have I experienced higher winds in my life?  Sure, plenty of times.  But have I experienced five days of constant wind of this caliber before?  No, I do not think so.

 

As visual evidence of this, please look at the pics attached to this post and the following post.  Please note the trees in each picture.  The two pics are taken at the same location just of the opposite sides of the street.  In the pic attached to this post, you can see the trees along the edge of the parking lot and ocean are very stunted in height and are growing nearly parallel to the ground due to the wind coming off the water.

 

Now let's look at the next post and picture...