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Fox Phoenix Runs Out Of Adjectives For The July 5 Haboob

No wonder, aside from the high heat there, all those "Zonies" invade San Diego in the summer.

Posted by Bruce Kesler at 16:18 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Dust, volcanic or otherwise, is very destructive to internal combustion engines and jet engines too. The Katmai Peninsula in Alaska has an area called the Valley of a Thousand Smokes, which very frequently erupts into dust clouds, shutting down all air travel until it calms down. Most native Alaskan flyers know to just settle down and buy themselves a good dinner and maybe even a bed for the night until the air clears and and the planes can fly safely again.

Marianne

#1 Marianne Matthews on 2011-07-06 17:49 (Reply)

I remember a popular bumper sticker from my days at SDSU: "Zonies Go Home. Leave Your Daughters."

#2 Tom Armstrong (Link) on 2011-07-06 21:52 (Reply)

Hilarious.
My folks moved us to Phoenix in 1968. Not a summer went by back then without great reddish-brown mountains moving across the Valley - from the SE mostly, but occasionally from the S or SW. I'd stay outside watching until they were right on top of the neighborhood, then retreat indoors to watch the thunderstorms that were usually right on their heels. Good times...
The way these New Zonies act when this kind of storm makes it in... oh, brother.

#3 Kv (Link) on 2011-07-07 11:31 (Reply)

I grew up in Albuquerque NM and we also have those monster dust storms followed by the thunderstorm and sometimes rain. I still remember the time I was traveling south on HW 25 to Las Cruces when I was caught in one of those dust storms promptly followed by a rain storm. It was actually raining mud and muddy water. It's the only time I have ever been in a mud storm. You couldn't drive in that stuff. Had to sit parked on the side of the road until it blew thru.

#4 Ray on 2011-07-07 14:18 (Reply)

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