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This hit last night and it was the hardest duststorm I can remember being in and I've been here for decades. It was a beast that sounded like the world was ending. It was so bad, the dust found its way into the cracks in my patio door and my apartment filled with the dust musty smells. Got a monster sinus headache now, but jeez my patio is a fucking mess! It was so bad that when I got up this morning and looked outside the air looked almost foggy as the sun glinted off of dust still lingering in the air. Ick! I freaking hate living where dust is considered a weather condition!

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  1. UnknownJuly 6, 2011 at 9:06 AM

    DOOM!

    END OF THE WORLD!

    And all that jazz.

    That video was jaw-dropping. I remember seeing a dust storm in one of the Mummy movies, and thinking 'wow, so unrealistic...' pfff....

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  2. Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNutJuly 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    Cripes! I hope your doing alright, Autumn!

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  3. Sharon DayJuly 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM

    Yeah. I'm fine. My apartment got a lot of dust in it--bad weather stripping, but it was fucking awesome! I'm a bit of an adrenalin jockey and storm chaser type, so I dug it, but I wish it had been followed with rain. The patio is covered in a half inch of sand because my apartment faces the desert preserve. They're amazing to watch when the come--it's a huge orange cloud that looks surreal. You think it's far away and you have time to go inside, like last night. I'm watching this thing and then it's atop of me. I almost couldn't get the apartment door open. It was pretty intense and I was sandblasted something awful. Stung like a mofo!

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  4. aliendescendant.blogspot.comJuly 6, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    These dust storms are real especially if you live near the Sahara desert in Tunisia and Morocco.

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  5. Monkey ManJuly 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    Today's weather in Portland - Sunny. 85 for a high. 55 for the low. Azure sky and no dust storm in sight. Pollen count however is another story....just ask Mrs. MM.

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  6. Sharon DayJuly 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    Yes, the dreaded pollen count. Ironically, I'm very allergic to tree pollen and to dust. I'm fucked either way, dear.

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  7. AnonymousJuly 6, 2011 at 1:27 PM

    Holy smokes! That some serious dust! Hope the clean up goes easily for y'all.

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  8. Sharon DayJuly 6, 2011 at 1:29 PM

    It was such a mess. I got into my car and every car in the parking lot was covered in at least a half inch of dust, the ground and everything was covered in it. It looks insane! I gotta get some pictures of it. It's pretty weird. I hope it rains but then it'll just be mud.

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  9. AnonymousJuly 6, 2011 at 1:37 PM

    Community mud wrestling. That could be an wicked charity opportunity just waiting to happen. :D

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  10. Sharon DayJuly 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    Hex;
    Hmm... I like the imagery of that. I think I know a couple neighbors I wouldn't mind taking on, like the ones who like to make noisy love with the windows open and cheesy sax music playing.

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  11. SorayaJuly 6, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    Glad you're ok! I almost didn't hear about it with every news channel talking about the Casey Anthony case.
    Maybe I can send some rain to you from Florida :-p From the start of the month, we've had two inches :-p

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  12. Sharon DayJuly 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM

    Oh, Soraya, I wish we could do that. I don't understand why we don't have a national canal system so no one ever floods or has drought. Take advantage of the rainy states.

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  13. Hatin' MouseJuly 6, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    They are talking about it on CNN now .
    That shit is wild .

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  14. Sharon DayJuly 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM

    It's disgusting. When I go to writer's critique group, I'll be sure and take my camera. The city looks like holy hell right now. Everywhere you go, people are trying to see out of cars covered in orange dust and the roadways are completely slick with it, every object sandblasted. It was the biggest one I've ever seen and I've seen some HUGE ones. I think they said it was 70 miles wide. When you see that coming, it's just like the scene in "The Mummy"

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  15. ZombieJuly 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    Dang that thing looks freaky! lol.

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