Freak storm in South Africa

Yesterday was such a calm day, nice and sunny, but we were expecting some rain in the afternoon/evening. Well I knew it was going to rain just looking at the sky and the general weather pattern that we have.

I was sitting in my room and it got really dark. I looked outside my window and there it was, a huge monster hanging in the air just above me. But it hadn't started to rain yet, but a few moments later hail started to fall.

Lucky for us it was not huge... or so I thought... there was a sudden pause in the rain and hail followed by huge hail stones that left many holes in the roofs of houses near by.

After a while it had been hailing so much that it started to look like snow had fallen on the ground. My poor plants were destroyed and well anything that was standing outside was destroyed.

But this was not the bad part, a few Km's away a tornado had formed. Yes that is right a tornado in SA??? But that wasn't the shocking part, this tornado had formed in our area that has many hills and mountains. This left me confused.

This is some of the devastation it left:

Funny thing is we had no weather warnings of this massive destructive storm. We were lucky enough to be right on top of a hill and somehow the biggest hail never hit us, but a few blocks away it did.