We are stuck inside today. It has been windy off and on during our first month but today is our first real sand storm. We're not going anywhere and appointments are being cancelled. School is still in, but if you don't have to go out it's best to stay inside.
Most mornings I wake up to this.
Last Wednesday we woke up to this. It looks like a foggy morning but instead it was dust and sand.
Once the wind died down it took another day and a half for all the dust to finally settle. We started to see blue sky again Friday afternoon.
The boys and I had an inside day full of movies, Legos both actual and virtual, and extended story time. Later that night I found the bathtub full of sand. This was way more than I find after bathing the boys but it was our shower and not theirs. Chris had rinsed the bike helmet he had worn to work during the storm and the sand inside completely covered the bottom of the tub.
I just left the natural disaster mecca of Alaska-- volcanoes, earthquakes, blizzards, avalanches, chinooks, and tsunamis (did I forget anything?) for nature's most violent and unpredictable phenomena that occurs just outside the real Mecca.
At least ours wasn't as bad as this.
A wall of sand approaching in Iraq
Yeah, if I saw that coming I would seriously want to hightail it outta there. Just looking at it makes me feel like I'm suffocating.
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