It is believed that the worst of South Australia's summer storms has passed after a tropical weather system delivered a third day of heavy downpours, breaking apart roads and rainfall records.
Flash flooding left the Stuart Highway nearly submerged underwater, while in the state's far north record-breaking rain soaked parts of Kimba.
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Justin Hocevar was in the outback for work when he and his team got stuck near Pimba, 441 kilometres from Adelaide.
"We've never seen anything like it before and we had similar feedback from a lot of the locals and it was a flash flood event," Mr Hocevar said.
"We got rained in there, with all the roads closed.
"We eventually got an exemption to get everybody out because after a few days we were all starting to get low on supplies."
Mr Hocevar and his team were able to escape when the rain cleared.
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Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula received the most rain that's ever fallen in 24 hours with 86.22mm.
The unseasonal three-day weather event started on Friday but the bureau says the cause, a tropical pressure system, isn't all that uncommon for this time of year.
"The tropical air masses is something that we do see reasonably often in summer...just not to this extent," the Bureau of Meteorology's Kylie Egan said.
A massive clean-up effort remains underway.
"We want to get behind and support those communities who are most impacted both from an infrastructure perspective and we're also hearing about some soil erosion," Premier Steven Marshall said.
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