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Today was a fun day, up into South Dakota, viability was bad, if anything had dropped we would never had seen it. decided to head SE in the hopes that there might be a bit of a clearing, had to drive a long way east before we found a river crossing.
Stopped just north of Norfolk, NE we stopped to look at the storm, and take pictures, mistake one, we kept our eyes off the baron, and the storm came in faster than we though. Chased back east 2 miles, but came to a T junction, had to take shelter behind a farm building, this was our first slamming by the rain this time, you couldn't even see the road at time. it was just like a big washing machine with no where to go.
After it had passed us, as you can see from the first picture the line was 470 miles long, so going round it wasn't a choice. So finding a gap between to cells was our only choice. that would put us on the east side again. The second picture shows us going though, there was a small gap, very turbulent, but pretty to see. Once we had got on the right hand side of the storm we took a SW road, I was videoing out of the right hand side when you could see a dust storm coming towards us, I got the window closed just in time, before we got slammed 3 feet across the road to the other side (I'll try t get a screen grab from my video camera when I get back). The wind we estimate must have been 60-70, full of dust, twigs, leaves and anything else it could pick up. Three of our aerials where blown off, one of which got bent.
Map of route (537 miles, total 6581)
