...to illustrate the type of day we're having here in Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park.
Sorry about the quality, Gentle Reader. I shot this using the "avi" function in my still camera. The camera takes excellent pictures, but videos? Not so much.
Just after noon today.
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The wind reminds me of my days as News Director at KGNO in Dodge City....35 MPH winds from the southwest, almost every day without fail.
ReplyDeleteThe dust "Brown Outs" on the roads were as bad as a Dakota Blizzard.
A little peanut dust never hurt anybody.
ReplyDeleteWe seem to be having similar weather here in OK. I'll think of you this weekend while on the beach. Hmm, sand is sand; isn't it?
Nice neighborhood.
We got your cast-off winds today but with plenty of dust ... and WE didn't even wash any vehicles. Insulted by a fickle Mother Nature.
ReplyDeletePat...we get some of those "brown outs," too. NOAA has an interesting site with satellite images of dust storms which are clearly visible from space. Their archives aren't all that extensive, but they're not bad.
ReplyDeleteLou: The neighborhood is OK, but it ain't in my Top Ten list of places I've ever lived. :->
Lin: Ma Nature is fickle indeed. The wind got fierce late yesterday afternoon (much higher than earlier, and with much dust, too), but I didn't go out and shoot another vid. With my shitty network connection it took me well over an hour to upload that lil two-minute vid I posted.
I hope you had everything nailed down!
Ugh, that was horrible wind yesterday!! Everytime a gust blew, my husband shouted and cussed out mother nature (we still have hay in the field! Hope its still there today). Floyd got called out to work the huge fire yesterday that closed down Hwy 70, but he manned the station just in case we got one here and sent two other trucks instead.
ReplyDeleteJenny sez: Ugh, that was horrible wind yesterday!! Everytime a gust blew, my husband shouted and cussed out mother nature (we still have hay in the field! Hope its still there today).
ReplyDeleteIt ain't much better today, is it, Jenny? I imagine your hubby is still cursing Ma Nature, as we speak. Me, too, but for different reasons. I SO want to go for a ride, but I ain't doin' it in this weather...
What fire on US 70? Howcum I never hear 'bout this stuff?
Wellll, Buck. If you would turn on the local news or listen to the local radio, look at the local paper online (you know, www.pntonline.com), you may have heard that about 15,000 acres burned yesterday. It started on the air base hwy (467), possibly by a cigarette butt, then the wind whipped it to Hwy 70, JUMPED that 4 lane hwy, and continued on down hwy 202. It was front page of today's paper and was top story on last night's news.
ReplyDeleteGotta rib you a little. You are so in touch with everything going on in the rest of the world, MUCH more than I am, I just expect you to know what's happening in your own backyard. LOL!
Jenny sez: Gotta rib you a little. You are so in touch with everything going on in the rest of the world, MUCH more than I am, I just expect you to know what's happening in your own backyard. LOL!
ReplyDeleteMea culpa.
I was much more in touch with local stuff when the ex-GF and I were together. I DO hit PNT-online every so often, but I never listen to local radio and I almost never watch local news... I think you gotta be a REAL masochist to watch local news. OTOH, local news is some the best improv comedy around. :->
Pop Quiz: what column do I write for PNT? LOL!! Well, they don't put my column online half the time, and when they do, the editors have chopped and changed it so much that it either a) the incorrect information or b) no longer resembles a coherent sentence.
ReplyDeleteAnd granted, sometimes I know more of what is going on because I listen to a police scanner 24/7 that happens to be on in the living room. Like, there was a rollover on the Dora Hwy (206) about 6 am yesterday and one victim was airlifted to Lubbock. But, you won't see anything in our sorry paper about that.
Pop Quiz: what column do I write for PNT?
ReplyDeleteOK, "Jennifer"...that's pretty easy. And I agree about the chopping. Your column reads like a list of bullet points. One assumes that's not the way you submit it, right?
"Sorry" is a pretty good way to describe the paper. Have I ever told ya about the time I first discovered the editor had a blog? I read an entry, left a comment, and came back the next day to find (a) my comment wasn't posted (and it was fairly innocuous... something about one of their syndicated columnists that had drawn some flack from some stick-up-the-butt local woman who was less than pleased with the subject matter) and (b) comments had been disabled on the blog.
I never went back. You may be able to comment on his blog now, but I wouldn't know. As I said: I never went back.
Well, it's kinda supposed to be a list. Birthdays, anniversaries, stuff going on at the school like games and events, other events like board meetings. I got my ass chewed out when I tried to put a "Thank You" in to all the communities that helped during the fire a couple years ago. It upsets me and people in the community when the paper doesn't allow me to put in what the people really want to see. It's frustrating, but it's $60 a month that I didn't have before. I don't even think Elida and Dora have thiers in anymore. The lady from Dora died a year ago, and she was heartbroken for the last few years that the paper had took all the "color" from her news. The paper doesn't like our little communities, they want to be a town paper and that's it.
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