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drove out to robertstown on weekend, back through eudunda nuiri, angaston, eden valley, springton....

robertstown - eudunda drive late morning of sunday just gone, was fckn terrifying!!

day started cloudless, then very picturesque fine skies with light white fluffy clouds, then intense heat with very gusty & cold winds, then driving back suddenly all these clouds appear from the west (i think) and they were going bloody fast & it was bloody intimidating and the clouds seemed really really close to the road...like 200m or something, it was weird, anyway to get to the point, the rain came so fast & hard & out of the blue that max setting on wipers didn't do jack all & the semi trailer trucks coming towards me on the straights were getting shoved across the road a good half a metre or so each time while my heavily loaded station wagon did the same, it was basically like, we're both going at least 100km's can't see the road & can't keep in a straight line...god fckn help me!

but for whatever reason i'm here to type about it and i'm grateful to be alive & safe. I swear i saw a few local farmers pulled over to the side of the road in work utes just waiting for the storm to pass, i should've followed their advice, that drive was ridiculous. 2hrs and about a dozen changes of temperature & weather conditions with the gustiest wind i've ever driven through.

the arid desert type areas of Australia that I've never experienced first hand & by myself before, are incredibly harsh. It made me realise that I would not last a week in survival conditions out there. I spent most of my childhood in Tasmania so the environments i'm used to are a little different!

-B.M

P.S) I've seen videos of super cell storms on youtube and from up robertstown way you can see like 3 times the area of sky that it would take to cover all of adelaide, and you've got that range of sight in all directions, this storm/cold front thing was moving very very fast and at a few moments I thought it looked ALOT like the youtube videos i'd seen... :S

[edit on 28/11/09 by B.Morrison]