Die Boland bibber behoorlik sedert Sondag (7 Julie) toe kouefronte die gebied met re\u00ebn, wind en sneeu begin peper het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar, soos die spreekwoord lui \u2013 hoe meer dinge verander, hoe meer bly dit dieselfde. Op \u2019n paar dae na \u2013 presies 114 jaar gelede, op Maandag 24 Augustus 1914 \u2013 het die strate van die Paarl dik onder die sneeu gel\u00ea. Dit was toe \u2013 en is steeds \u2013 \u2019n baie seldsame verskynsel. Trouens, daar is geen ander rekord in die dorp se geskiedenis van sneeu wat in sy strate val nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens rekords het dit omstreeks 10:30 die oggend begin sneeu en \u2019n uur en \u2019n half lank aangehou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die volgende ooggetuieverslag het vier dae later, op 29 Augustus 1914, in die Paarl Post<\/em><\/span> verskyn (oorspronklik geskryf in Afrikaans-Nederlands):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sneeu op die Paarl: \u2019n Wonderlike verskynsel<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNiemand (nie eens ons grootouers nie) het nog ooit in die Paarl gesien wat ons verlede Maandag beleef het, naamlik \u2019n swaar sneeuval in die dorpie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie vorige dag (Sondag) was daar ligte en deurdringende re\u00ebn \u2013 veral in die aand \u2013 en die lug was toe ietwat koud. Die weerglas was nie laag nie \u2013 dit was darem, soos \u2019n mens sou s\u00ea, te hoog vir re\u00ebn en te laag vir mooi weer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMaandagoggend was daar \u2019n ligte re\u00ebnbui, terwyl die glas \u201cmooi weer\u201d lees, maar dit was baie koud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie water temperatuur was baie koud \u2013 38 grade (Fahrenheit) \u2013 so koud as wat dit nog nooit voorheen gevoel het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWat is hierdie? Kyk daar!\u201d het mense van alle kante gehoor. Mense het deur die strate gehardloop om ander aan te moedig, en dit was nie lank nie of base, klerke, werkers, onderwysers en studente het buite gestaan ??om hierdie \u2018verskynsel\u2019 te bewonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDaar was \u2019n pouse van twee of drie minute, waartydens dit gelyk het of die sneeuval verby was. Maar nee, die rukwinde het weer begin uitsak, en nou was daar geen druppels re\u00ebn sigbaar nie. Alles wat afgekom het, was \u2019n bietjie wit \u2013 spierwit \u2013 en het so dik geval dat dit moeilik was om iets op \u2019n afstand van 100 tre\u00eb te sien. Alles wat op die strate en paaie beweeg het, het \u2019n bedekking van wit gedra, en later het dames en here, seuns en meisies doelbewus uitgegaan in die straat om die \u2018eer\u2019 te h\u00ea om op hul koppe, skouers en rug bedek te wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDestyds was die Paarlberg in wit gehul \u2013 rotse, bome en woude, alles bedek, sodat hulle amper onsigbaar was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie wingerde op die helling het soos kolossale wit matte gelyk en die rotse het soos sfere van glinsterende kryt gelyk. Gou was die takke van bome in wit bedek en kleiner plante het gebuig onder die gewig van die versteende water. Die sneeu het in slote en riole opgehoop, die dakke (yster en grasdak) het hulself in wit gewys. Voorwaar iets wonderliks ??vir die Paarl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOud en jonk het sneeuballe begin maak, en toe die skoolkinders uitgaan vir hul middagete, was daar \u2019n algemene \u201cgeveg\u201d in die strate. Ander het hulle geniet deur poppe en allerhande figure uit die sneeu te maak. Die sneeuval het voortgeduur totdat die omgewing \u2019n skouspel aangebied het soos nog nooit in die Paarl gesien is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNadat die sneeu vir sowat \u2019n uur en \u2019n half geval het, het ligte re\u00ebn gekom, wat die wit dakke en bome in \u2019n relatief kort tyd hul vorige voorkoms gegee het. Die Paarlberg het egter vir \u2019n geruime tyd met \u2019n wit laken bedek gebly en in Drakenstein Berge was hulle tot aan die voet in wit versier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy Wellington moes die sneeuval swaar gewees het, te oordeel aan die dikte en omvang van die sneeu op die berge daar naby. Ons hoor dat by Franschhoek die studente almal toestemming gekry het om hul klasse te verlaat om die skouspel van sneeuval in hierdie warm streke te bewonder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die Boland bibber behoorlik sedert Sondag (7 Julie) toe kouefronte die gebied met re\u00ebn, wind en sneeu begin peper 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