Storm Over the Prairies

After leaving the Rockies, and heading east for several hours, we spent the night in Medicine Hat, rocked by wind all night long. The next morning it was back on the Trans-Canada with the wind on our tail. As long as we were straight ahead of the wind it was fine, but if the road curved, the cross-winds were terrible. We stopped at Gull Lake Saskatchewan to make breakfast, and parked behind a transport trailer to block the wind. But Coco and Holly wanted to go outside for a bit.....

The wind was crazy strong....

Storm clouds kept flying by, and occasionally it would rain. We seemed to be riding the front of the storm, with sun ahead, and dark clouds behind....

The boys wanted to have a picture taken with some of the farm equipment in Swift Current...

Saskatchewan is covered with small ponds and marshes, and the wind was whipping up waves in even the smallest ponds. Migrating birds were bobbing on the waves.....

Dust and tumbleweed were constantly blowing across the highway....

At Reed Lake, which is a very shallow large pond along the side of the highway, ​​the road going across was closed because of the severe waves. Birds could barely fight the wind.

We stopped in Mortlach for a break, to check out their last remaining grain elevator.

We stopped for the night in Regina, but during the night the storm overtook us, so next morning, not only did we have wind gusting to 100km, but it was also raining. We drove across all of Manitoba in the storm, but before leaving the Prairies, I wanted to take one final photo of the girls in the wind.......

The wind was so strong that it actually blew their wigs right off their heads.
Thankfully they didn't land in a puddle or in the mud!  So after​ putting their 
wigs back on, I took the photos in the relative 'shelter' of the RV.

Being blown across the Prairies was quite the experience, but bonus - the powerful
tail-winds gave us an extra 30% mileage from each tank of gas!