Lubbock made national news with the dust storm that blew through last evening. According to The Weather Channel, it was not an official haboob, as that requires an electric storm along with the wind and dust. We just had dust and wind.
Thank you to my dear freinds who have check in with me to ask if I was okay. As far as I have been able to tell, the wind damage was limited to broken twigs and downed leaves in my back yard. I saw some large limbs down and lots of leaves on the ground in my neighborhood.
I have seen a cloud of dust roll in like that before, only it was black dust, I was out in the open in a park. It was not as violent as this storm, and I was in my vehicle before the strongest of the storm hit.
I remember a TV mini-series "Centennial" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076993/. The opening scenes show a very black dark rolling wall of dust, much like the one I saw years ago in the park. I thought it was the stuff of Hollywood. But, by the time I had lived in Lubbock 2 years, I knew this could happen.
This rolling cloud was red. I had the sense of flames all around, but of course, that was not the case.
A friend from the Northeast called to check on me. She said she would rather deal with snow. My comment tonight, as was my comment the first time I endured a serious dust storm in Lubbock some 30 years ago is "I did not have to shovel dust."
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