Thursday, July 7, 2011

Goodnight?

We thought we had seen everything out here in AZ. Scorpions, coyotes, monsoons, 117 degrees, crazy drivers (ok, you see a few of them in NJ too)...but this week we experienced a wholly new phenomenon: a wall of dust!

For a moment we thought Harold Camping was right! We experienced this from inside our place, when the evening turned to night in a matter of seconds. We heard this howling wind, and saw the trees bending. But the most shock occurred when we opened the door to look outside, and dust came in immediately. It settled down as quickly as it came but the full impact of what had happened didn't hit until we read the paper in the morning...THIS WALL WAS NEARLY A MILE HIGH! Take a look at this.





Now mind you we are fine, but the back of our patio and right up to the garage door and everywhere you see a blanket of dust was left behind. We washed the back down this evening and will do the front and cars on the weekend. Oh the joys of living in the desert.

Location:Phoenix,United States