Monday, October 17, 2011

An Amazing Wind Storm

Until I moved to West Texas, I never thought about wind storms. We had one today.  The winds picked up some time this afternoon.  The temperature was in the 90s°.  We could see the dust blowing.

I went home from work a little early.  When I left work, the winds were from the south west.  By the time I drove the 12 to 15 minutes to my house, the winds had changed to be out of the south west. 

I had already fed the cats and sat down to read the newspaper. It was 5:45 PM. I looked at the clock.  There was very thick red dust outside, so thick, that it was almost as dark as night. This lasted for a while, and as it dissipated, it appeared the wind came from the north.  I have heard some movement of things outside.  http://www.kcbd.com/story/15715382/wall-of-dust-sweeps-across-south-plains

It was too amazing!


And now, there is still wind, but less dust.

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