Wind question

I was driving across the salt flats between Salt Lake City and Wendover a few years ago and a late summer storm came up. I had a direct cross wind along with rain. At one point the wind pushed me into the next lane even though I was turning the wheel to the right, I was still going left. The only reason I had kept going that far is because the only other choice was to pull over on the side of the freeway and sit there with a direct cross wind. The traffic was light and everybody that was still on the road was down to about 25 mph. I finally was able to get off the freeway near Wendover and found a place where I could park faced into the wind. Had to wait about two hours before the winds slowed down enough to get back on the road.