I actually can't believe that I'm writing two weather posts in one day, but this is just insane. As I acknowledged in the first post today, I've never spent time in a desert, so I didn't really understand what a sandstorm/duststorm/call it what you will was. Now I do, and it's both bizarre and disgusting.
Around 5 p.m. our time today, the sky turned brown. Not gray, as in to indicate a storm, brown. Khaki-colored, to be precise. I heard the wind whipping around and noticed a layer of sand on top of everything. Being the adventurous sort, I walked outside. Big mistake--by the time I came back in, I was covered in a very fine layer of dust. My hair had turned lighter, my navy blue shirt looked filthy, and my mouth tasted like sawdust. Very appealing, all of it.
A few minutes ago, M came back after taking a quick dip in the pool. The water on his body combined with the sand had made his entire body muddy. He proceeded to gleefully waddle around in a towel offering to hug everyone while we ran away and threatened him with pool cues.
So now when my glorious little weather widget (thanks again, MMS) says there's a duststorm, you know to avoid this place in July.
2 comments:
Sandstorm and 114° heat - wonder why more people don't live there!! LOL Enjoy the blog and look forward to reading more!
your blog makes me want to go to burning man... okay, not really. i'm a total weather wimp for anything above 85 degrees. and that's why i live in the SF bay area. i won't tell you what the high in SF was today... your weather widget can give you that depressing info. but you should know that when i was in panama w/ padre mickey, i learned that a damp towel in the freezer would stay pretty cool for a while, and that was what i usually wore around my neck.
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