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Phoenix is currently experiencing a Haboob.
A truely mean weather event.
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Re: Haboob

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Can't be so cold and wet, can it be?

How rainy can it get in Arizona, anyway?

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Head down....chins up....
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Must be due to 'climate change'...
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Nice steady rain up here since sundown.
Lot of dunder and blixem towards Cottonwood.
Temp dropped from 104 to 75 in no time.
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Dust storm I says. ;)
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Does it look like this ?

Image (near Ransom Canyon, Texas, June 2009)




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Yes, only more intense.
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I think the Phoenix area dust storms are one the true life events that Hollywood hasn't outdone oin dramatic portrayal.
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That's what makes the south of Picacho Peak area of I-10 a death trap. Lots of dust and people driving 85 to 90 mph in it.
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I thought that was the name of one of those guys that just got let out of Guantanamo...

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FWiedner wrote:I thought that was the name of one of those guys that just got let out of Guantanamo...

:?
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I was born in Phoenix and refuse to use this term for these events. They were dust storms 50 yrs ago and are still dust storms today.

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Hollywood did a fair job of it in "Hidalgo..."
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You know,
that movie deserved more attention than it got.
I remember sitting on the edge of the couch ( at the race to the finish )
saying to myself " don't die Hidalgo, don't die! )
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Mescalero wrote:You know,
that movie deserved more attention than it got.
I remember sitting on the edge of the couch ( at the race to the finish )
saying to myself " don't die Hidalgo, don't die! )
It was a heck of a movie.... 8)
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Stay safe Mescalero.
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Dave B wrote:I was born in Phoenix and refuse to use this term for these events. They were dust storms 50 yrs ago and are still dust storms today.

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Dave B wrote:I was born in Phoenix and refuse to use this term for these events. They were dust storms 50 yrs ago and are still dust storms today.

Dave B
I looked up Haboob. It's a dust storm of sorts. Why do you object to the name? I'm not being contrary just curious.
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I remember a trip back to Orange County after a week's honeymoon at the Colorado River and dropping off the Chiriaco Summit (where's there a great Gen'l Patton Memorial Museum), and looking at this dark cloud that looked to be headed east... thinkin' this is going to eat the paint right off my '55 Chevy... and it turns out it was just the smog layer over Riverside! :P :P
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