These photos are courtesy of Lisa Skillen of Toole Peet & Co. Limited, Calgary, Alberta.
Lisa said, "This happened on my recent trip to the island of Cyprus in September. We were in Nicosia (Europe’s only militarily divided city). We were across the Green line into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the sky started to look really dark and a few rain droplets started to fall. In a matter of minutes, golf ball sized hail was falling and we were hiding under an awning to escape the rain/wind/hail. The wind was so strong we thought it best to keep to our little awning until things cooled down. Once the rain stopped we headed back across the green line to our car (about two blocks away) and the road back to our hotel was covered in palm trees and all sorts of debris. It took us 2 hours to go 2 blocks. There had been a Tornado in Nicosia that injured 17 and left 10 homeless, fortunately there were no fatalities. This poor Mercedes was one of the injured."
Lisa said, "This happened on my recent trip to the island of Cyprus in September. We were in Nicosia (Europe’s only militarily divided city). We were across the Green line into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the sky started to look really dark and a few rain droplets started to fall. In a matter of minutes, golf ball sized hail was falling and we were hiding under an awning to escape the rain/wind/hail. The wind was so strong we thought it best to keep to our little awning until things cooled down. Once the rain stopped we headed back across the green line to our car (about two blocks away) and the road back to our hotel was covered in palm trees and all sorts of debris. It took us 2 hours to go 2 blocks. There had been a Tornado in Nicosia that injured 17 and left 10 homeless, fortunately there were no fatalities. This poor Mercedes was one of the injured."