theyreallgunalaughatyou says:

I was in the middle of the dust storm living/driving. Been here in Phoenix over a decade. It was a big dust storm but not a bad one. In past years I’ve been in storms so thick you can’t see tail lights one car length ahead of you, storms you can taste and the grit is in your mouth, and dust storms joined with the right amount of rain so you have messy dried mud on everything the next day. This storm was more creepy than bad. Visibility for me driving was about 700ft for structures and 1000 for lights. It was a fine dirt not sandy.

Now, the next afternoon, in my development we have a light coating on everything, one large broken tree and murky pools. No big deal.

The monsoon thunderstorms about to start are worse and they usually don’t do damage. Every spot on the globe has their weird weather. I hate cold and I don’t have to turn the heat on most years. No snow, let alone shoveling. No raking leaves. No cleaning gutters. 7-8 nice months and 4-5 with the AC on. Also, light clothes instead of layers rock, especially on the ladies. I’ll take Phoenix over the Great Lakes every day.

deowll says:

To each their own. I don’t like temperatures below 0 and I don’t like inhaling dust so I guess I stay here in TN.

bobbo, we think with words, and flower with ideas. says:

Doesn’t this mean “by definition” there is bad or no soil management going on somewhere up wind?

Just saw Michael Pollan on Great Conversations talking about how much more complex and “wonderful” organic farming is: it rebuilds and creates more soil as it goes along.

Yes, that right–indoor hydroponics is in all our futures.

GF says:

The only thing different about this storm other than those in the past is how many people were time lapse recording it this time.