Dust storms and wild winds cause destruction across South Australia

Thousands of properties are still without power in South Australia after a series of storms hit the state.

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00:00Parts of the state are in clean up mode this morning left to pick up the pieces after those

00:08destructive winds lashed us yesterday. We're down here at Henley Beach this morning and

00:13while the worst of the cold front has now passed us you can see that we still have those massive

00:19tidal surges and the jetty here has remained closed to keep people safe. The SES says that

00:26from midnight on Monday they have responded to 470 call outs for assistance for trees toppled on

00:34properties and blocking roads. This is all due to those destructive winds which we saw yesterday the

00:41strongest of those recorded on Neptune Island at 126 kilometers per hour and for the mainland we saw

00:49wind speeds reaching in excess of 100 kilometers per hour. Yesterday across the day there was 28

00:56thousand customers who were impacted by power outages but crews have been working around the

01:02clock. This cold front did not bring the relief to the drought conditions which we've been experiencing

01:08here in South Australia especially for regional farmers some places only seeing less than one

01:14millimeter of rain not the conditions that we were waiting for to help ease these drought conditions.

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