Hail damage after Moot storm
“The next minute it sounded like someone was throwing stones on our roof. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 13 years as a resident in this area.”
Several residents in the Moot suffered hail damage after a storm on Sunday evening which some described as sounding “like a train”.
The storm, which started at around 18:30, lasted just a few minutes but wrecked windows and roofs in the area.
One resident, Martin van der Westhuizen, said he had been watching television in his living room with his son when the storm hit.
“I asked my wife, Ronel, if she could hear the train coming,” he told Rekord.
“We live in 32nd Avenue near the train station so I assumed that was what I was hearing. The next minute the storm was on us.”
Van der Westhuizen said the storm ended up breaking five of the windows around his house.
“Our satellite television dish was also damaged and our pool was full of leaves and branches from the nearby trees.”
“The storm didn’t last that long for us but by the end of it we were without electricity.”
By early Monday afternoon the power had not yet been restored.
Another resident, Johan Naude, suffered even more damage.
“We live near Waverley plaza and heard a massive ‘boom’, unlike anything we’ve ever heard before,” he said.
“The next minute it sounded like someone was throwing stones on our roof. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 13 years as a resident in this area.”
The hail made large holes in the roof above Naude’s office and gym area.
“My partner, Alida Skinner’s, office was damaged by the rain which followed. She runs her business, Alida Skinner Properties, from home and this is a very big setback.”
Naude said the rain and hail lasted some 30 minutes before it subsided.
“We have made arrangements to temporarily have the roof fixed but more rain is being predicted for Monday afternoon and I am worried the roof won’t be fixed by then.”
Skinner said the storm was very traumatic as hail stones were lying all over the office, gym and living room floors.
Other residents took to social media to report similar damages.
Tshwane emergency services confirmed they had received no reports relating to the storm.
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