Well, we’ve had one big consistent sandstorm for 7 days now. Sometimes the wind gusts at about 40 mph and you’re literally getting sandblasted, but sometimes the wind stops and you just are in a dust bowl while the sand starts to kind of settle, at least until the next big gust of wind comes. Ie normally try to stay inside for the dust storms, but I couldn’t just pause life for an entire week, so I’ve been out everyday in this stuff. I pretty much just wear my biggest pair of sunglasses, even though you don’t need sunglasses b/c the sun is blocked out by the dirt, but sunglasses keep it from blowing into your eyes as you’re walking. I figure it’s a tradeoff really; I can either look like a complete idiot wearing sunglasses when they’re not needed, or look like an idiot stumbling down the street b/c I can’t see. Either way, I lose!
After about 3 days I was shocked at how long and how bad this has been, but then I thought about it a little more and came up with a theory...It doesn’t storm here, at least not rain storms, so the thunderstorms that I am used to have been replaced with sand storms (which are accompanied by lightning, by the way). And I guess in TX it wouldn’t be so abnormal to have a week where it is just rainy weather, maybe not actually raining all the time, but just drizzly and icky. So, in theory, this is the same thing but without the rain. I would like to see it be rainy weather for a week though. The people here wouldn’t know what to do with it; they’d think it was the end of the world. I’d also like to see this whole sand storm thing for a week in TX. I think it would be mass chaos.
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