Sunday, June 28, 2020

quote from article about massive Saharan dust cloud in the U.S. from Africa

"A quick glance out the window, it's easy to confuse it for fog," Chapa, a 44-year-old Houston resident told AccuWeather, adding that the haze looked like fog but with, "a slight brown tint."

"This is much different from ozone action days, but not quite like a forest fire," Chapa said. "I wear glasses and I was wearing a face mask. My eyes are fine, but even with the mask, my throat is irritating after talking around for about 30 minutes in the dust storm."
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If you have ever been in an actual desert dust storm it isn't a pleasant experience at all. Your throat and eyes hurt from the dust first of all and you cannot be out in it if the winds are very strong because it will also like a sand blaster take all the skin off your face and hands. So, at the very least if you are caught out in a sand storm you have to lay down and cover yourself with sand and cover your face and hands with some kind of cloth to survive it. Otherwise, you might die out in a bad sand storm.
When I was about 5 or 6 years we were with friends from my Dad's  work     and we went to death valley and got caught in a sand storm there and we couldn't get out of the car and didn't know where we were because we couldn't see past the hood of the car. The sand storm took all the paint off the car down to the metal and ruined all the windows too. We had to wait in the car all night as the sand ruined the car. Finally, close to daylight we found a road up a canyon where we finally got relief from the sand storm and could actually get out of the car without being harmed.

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