Driving around Phoenix today after dusk when suddenly everything got misty. "Strange," I thought, since it's not supposed to rain until monsoon season in August. The palm trees were swaying wildly. Pulled into Kmart parking lot where unreal praying mantis yellow street lamps glowered through the haze, as shopping carts wheeled themselves around of their own accord. I went up to a dude who was collecting them and found out that it was a dust storm. "They start out in the desert," he tells me, and last only for a few hours. Even worse he tells me are "microbursts," mini-hurricanes that come out of nowhere and vanish into nowhere, sometimes doing serious damage.
Posted by Alan at May 30, 2003 06:43 AM