About 5000 homes remain without power as South Australians start cleaning up after days of fierce storms.
A brutal cold front has brought frigid conditions to the Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu Peninsula, with wild winds ravaging the state's power network, blowing trees onto homes and sweeping away tin sheds.
The Bureau of Meteorology says the worst of the weather is over, for now, but is closely monitoring the situation.
The severe weather put huge pressure on emergency services including the SES, which logged 1700 calls for help since Saturday night - 1000 on Tuesday alone.
But there have only been three calls since midnight, with the cold front having moved into Victoria.
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SES state duty officer Aaron Blasch says the number of trees brought down, particularly in the Mount Lofty ranges and on the Fleurieu Peninsula, was staggering.
The SES hasn't seen such a high number of calls for help for years.
"... and 80 per cent of those calls were for trees down and that, in itself, is quite a spectacular number as well," Mr Blasch told ABC radio.
SA Power Networks says downed trees played havoc with the power network, particularly in the Adelaide Hills but also across large parts of metropolitan Adelaide.
A total of 120,000 customers were cut off during the severe weather, but that's since been reduced to about 5000.
"I think this will be similar to, if not worse, than the one we had in the eastern foothills in 2014, which was probably the worst storm damage we've seen in living memory," SA Power Networks Paul Roberts has told the ABC.
He said 120,000 customers is a lot out of 850,000.
Adelaide had its coldest day in two years with a top of 11C on Tuesday, bringing a light dusting of snow to the Adelaide Hills and leaving black ice across some roads.
The mercury is expected to climb a little higher in the capital on Wednesday, with a top temperature of 13C forecast.
But the bureau continues to warn sheep farmers in the Mount Lofty Ranges, and in other parts of the state, that they could lose stock to the cold conditions.
A gale warning remains current for the Lower South East Coast, and a strong wind warning is current for the Central Coast, South Central Coast and Upper South East Coast.
