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 http://www.azfamily.com/story/...t-rolls-through-town MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A monsoon storm hit the Valley hard Thursday evening, bringing high winds, low visibility and a massive wall of rolling dust coming from the south. "It is a huge one," said our reporter in the chopper, Jerry Ferguson. "This is a classic Arizona dust storm barreling across the southeast Valley." | ||
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Pool got a gallon of chlorine this morning. Pump is still churning to get the pool clean. "I don't shoot well, but I shoot often." - Pres. T. Roosevelt | |||
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Wow - like something out of a Sci-Fi flick. Probably not that uncommon to folks that live there - but for it looks surreal to an East Coaster. | |||
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That photo looks like food on the table for car washes and window washing companies. | |||
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They are indeed impressive when they hit!! | |||
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Never been that far West. Does that happen often?  | |||
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They're quite common this time of year and their actual name is 'Haboob', no kidding! We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln | |||
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Do we have wormsign? Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen! I was pulling overtime at work when my phone started blaring the alert. Went over to the window and peeked our through the blinds. I decided to stay put and work a little while longer. An hour later visibility was still low, but thankfully there weren’t many people on the road. “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” - Robert Heinlein | |||
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That right there is why I live in the PNW. ___________________________________________ Life Member NRA & Washington Arms Collectors Mistake not my current state of joshing gentle peevishness for the awesome and terrible majesty of the towering seas of ire that are themselves the milquetoast shallows fringing my vast oceans of wrath. Velocitas Incursio Vis - Gandhi | |||
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Yep. In Arizona and in parts of southern New Mexico along I-10. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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It's a Haboob! | |||
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[/QUOTE] They're quite common this time of year and their actual name is 'Haboob', no kidding![/QUOTE] Haboob is an Arabic term somebody brought back from the sandbox in the last 10 years. To us old timers down here (via 1969) the proper term is Dust Storm __________________________ "Para ser libre, un hombre debe tener tres cosas, la tierra, una educacion y un fusil. Siempre un fusil !" (Emiliano Zapata) | |||
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Drive in that crap sometime. Then clean the formerly clear windshield and drive at night. You see a beautiful starlit night with sprakles everywhere. All across the front widow. Don't bother t try to clean it off, because the nice little grains of sand that only made a sound when they hit actually eroded the surface of the glass. Each impact is now a source of entertainment from other headlights at night. Unhappy ammo seeker | |||
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Thanks for the chuckle.  | |||
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Shamal.... "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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ADOT and DPS advice is, if caught in one while driving, pull to the side of the road and turn off your lights, and keep your foot off the brake pedal. Other vehicles will blindly follow your light thinking it is "the car in front of them on the road". They are so blinding that lights are the only visual clue you have, and even then you cannot see them until you are very close up. Just waiting for it to pass over is the safest thing to do. | |||
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Doesn't a monsoon require a tropical climate and a LOT of rain? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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It's a dry rain.  -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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After experiencing a true monsoon in Southeast Asia, when I first heard the “rainy” season in Arizona referred to by the same term I was incredulous. Since then, though, I learned that it’s the way many people in the southwest U.S., including Colorado, refer to this time of year. I attend many emergency services briefings and to this day when someone talks about how the monsoon moisture will mitigate the wildfire danger it makes me cringe. But seeing a dust cloud referred to as a “monsoon storm” is a new one on me. “I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz This life is a drill. It is only a drill. If it had been a real life, you would have been given instructions about where to go and what to do. | |||
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