We're Having a Dust Storm
Jun. 25th, 2006 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancinghorseIt's just about to hit. The sky has clouded up, the wind is howling, and there's a brown cloud, sharply demarcated, rolling over the Rincons and swallowing Tanque Verde Ridge. The horses have stopped to watch it come. They have their fly masks and there's shelter if they want it; they're not acting concerned. The air is hot and smells of dust.
...and the sky has gone pale brown; past a couple of hundred feet in any direction, the world is browned out. It's not the kind of blinding, zero-visibility storm that wipes out traffic on the highway; it's more like a brown snowstorm. No rain in it and no smell of rain, though the southeast was blue-black before the brown cloud swallowed it.
Even in the house with the evaporative coolers on and filtering the dust, my eyes feel dry and scratchy, No ride tonight.
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lynnesite has news. Maybe she'll post it in her lj soon.
ETAIt's a haboob. Thunderstorm outflows, the NWS says. We're under a "Blowing Dust Advisory." I'm glad we're not trying to haul any horses tonight. Or do anything else involving being out in a vehicle.
...and the sky has gone pale brown; past a couple of hundred feet in any direction, the world is browned out. It's not the kind of blinding, zero-visibility storm that wipes out traffic on the highway; it's more like a brown snowstorm. No rain in it and no smell of rain, though the southeast was blue-black before the brown cloud swallowed it.
Even in the house with the evaporative coolers on and filtering the dust, my eyes feel dry and scratchy, No ride tonight.
lynnesite has news. Maybe she'll post it in her lj soon.ETAIt's a haboob. Thunderstorm outflows, the NWS says. We're under a "Blowing Dust Advisory." I'm glad we're not trying to haul any horses tonight. Or do anything else involving being out in a vehicle.
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Date: 2006-06-26 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-26 01:55 am (UTC)I think I'd prefer a downpour to that. But the term "haboob" is way cooler. :}
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Date: 2006-06-26 06:18 am (UTC)POST ALREADY!! with PICS!
also: haboob. huh. you guys do get the weathers.... I didn't know what a haboob WAS until a couple of weeks ago!
aside for *SQUEE*.
back to the haboob: clearly the mechanical fates were intervening to keep you and pooklet #1 for the year OFF the road.
end with more *SQUEE*
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Date: 2006-06-26 12:56 pm (UTC)I was scribing for stadium jumping at a horse trails, and discovered that the judges' nickname for Beginner Novice was the 911 division. Despite this, the OBN division (the last of the day) went like clockwork, and we got all the riders through and horses under cover before the storm struck. A friend won her division with her Prelim horse, and I only saw four or five rounds that were truly terrifying, out of over 120 participants. It was a fun day.
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Date: 2006-06-26 03:32 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 2006-06-27 02:19 am (UTC)