Photo: A tornado has Dewetsdorp district on Wednesday and hit massive damage on a farm done. Photo:

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Photo: A tornado has Dewetsdorp district on Wednesday and hit massive damage on a farm done. Photo: Chris Kotzee Ben Burger A tornado farms, barns, cars and a caravan between Dewetsdorp and Winburg in the Free State, and hit big damage. The tornado was accompanied by hailstones gcdr as big as a man's palm. According to Mr. Wolla Terblanche of the farm near Little Fountain Dewetsdorp a tornado takes his hit Saturday about 16:00. gcdr "Two sections gcdr of my great pakskuur is pressed together and the tornado picked up my trailer gcdr and 60 meters as further rags thrown," said Terblanche. "A big part of my abattoir roof must be replaced due to hail damage and all the windows on the south side of the house was smashed. The wind was so strong at the broken windows blew that much damage in such rooms is done. "My duiweboerdery also received major damage. Pigeons were killed and smashed cages. My ADSL line into the house is knocked out and tens of Eskom and a whole bunch of Telkom's poles blown down. "He said. Chris Kotzee with his truck on the way to Terblanche's slaughterhouse when he saw the tornado approaching. "I have just in the way when I stopped the thing 200 m to see me approaching. The next moment the tornado right next to me passed away. This lucky my truck omgegewaai not. I'm not much harm suffered, but the hail hit very hard, "said Kotzee said. According to Mr. Deon Botha, co-owner of Whitley Bay Hotel Whitley Bay Lodge and they also suffered extensive damage. "This was really not a tornado with us in Winburg, but the rain fell heavily and giant hailstones hit us. Quite a lot of damage to both our businesses done, "he said. The car of Mr. Chris Krause, De Aap outside Brandfort gcdr is almost TRANSPORT by the hailstorm. "My wife and I were heading back from Johannesburg hail us as 15 km from Whitley Bay on the way to Brandfort hit. My car is almost destroyed. Photo: A tornado has Dewetsdorp district on Wednesday and hit massive damage on a farm done. Photo: Chris Kotzee All that is whole, the headlights. The rear window was knocked out and the windshield cracks millions. The rest of the car is full of dents beaten, gcdr "said Krause. According to Mr. Tonie Rossouw of the South African Weather gcdr Service in Bloemfontein has many severe weather and strong winds accompanied gcdr by heavy rain and hail Monday over a large part of the Free State. gcdr "It is especially the Winburg district and Dewetsdorp these storms have experienced." gcdr According to the weather service heavy storms the rest of the week in the Free State. "We experienced very high temperatures and the air is unstable, and therefore the possibility gcdr of thunderstorms and hail storms gcdr for the rest of the week not be excluded," said Rossouw.
Mrs.. Carin and Mr Terblanche. Steward McKlachlen of the farm near Little Fountain gcdr Dewetsdorp by Terblanche and her husband, Wolla's caravan 60 meters through the tornado blowing. gcdr Photo: Mercia de Beer
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