Cape Town, in South Africa, is currently experiencing a drought so bad that it is estimated to happen only once every 300 years (or to be more accurate, is experiencing a drought that has a chance of occurring in a given year of 1/300). This is worse than our D4 drought in Oklahoma and nearby parts of the US Southwest, which are roughly 1 in 100 year events. Huffington Post has a wonderful long essay bu Eve Fairbanks on life in Cape Town and how the drought has changed it in bad and good ways there. You can read it at “Dry, the Beloved Country.”
