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Storm Over the Prairies

12/11/2015

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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.....
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The wind was crazy strong....
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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....
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The boys wanted to have a picture taken with some of the farm equipment in Swift Current...
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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.....
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Dust and tumbleweed were constantly blowing across the highway....
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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.
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We stopped in Mortlach for a break, to check out their last remaining grain elevator.
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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.......
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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.
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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!
5 Comments
Donna
12/11/2015 11:21:56 am

The prairies are awesome, aren't they?!! I really enjoyed the 10 years I spent in Manitoba. Your photos illustrate what the motto on Manitoba license plates should read...Windy Manitoba!

I love the photos of the kids with their hair blowing wildly in the wind :o)

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Martha
12/13/2015 06:14:48 am

I do like the Prairies, because you can see for miles and miles, and they aren't even too flat - except around Regina and Winnipeg. But driving across Saskatchewan does get a bit tiresome.

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Martha
12/13/2015 06:19:33 am

Which is why we used to make a game out of stopping to photograph grain elevators. But most of the old wooden ones are in really bad shape, and quite of few of our favourites have disappeared in recent years.

Jane
12/12/2015 03:53:23 am

Oh my goodness!!!
Thank goodness you were able to catch the wigs! I am always so worried about losing wigs in the wind!

And what fabulous photos of the girls 'flying' in the wind...........I still at (mumbling a large number) love to do that!!!
But what a storm! I would have hated to have been chased by that!

And I always have just loved the name 'Saskatchewan'

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Jilly
12/12/2015 06:06:52 am

Oh I love the pics and I love the dolls.. love your clothes too wish I could make some like that. Thanks for sharing.
Safe jouney

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