Australia's biggest city was grabbing the pieces Friday after a progression of lightning and hailstorms beat vehicles with ice obstructs the span of tennis balls.
The specialists issued a serious tempest cautioning, yet that was insufficient to avert harm that is as of now running into the a huge number of dollars.
"As of 6:30 am we are at 15,000 cases and AUS$80 million (US$57 million) in harms," the Insurance Council of Australia told AFP.
At the point when the tempests hit, Sydneysiders looked on in franticness as cauliflower-molded hail crushed through vehicle windshields and transformed the Harbor into a gurgling and sprinkling cauldron.
Numerous drivers looked for asylum under roofed petroleum stations and a couple of valiant surfers in the water at the city's acclaimed Bondi Beach stowed away under their sheets.
Hailstorms are genuinely normal in the province of New South Wales in the antipodean summer, albeit one on this scale has not been seen since 1999, when hailstones caused an expected AUS$1.7 billion in harm.
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