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I am sitting here in my office looking out of my window watching as literally hundreds of pounds of sand go by every minute. The steady winds right now are 40 MPH and the gusts have gone as high as 65 just 2 miles away at one of the weather stations I watch online. It's a good thing all the cabling and electrical are burried here, otherwise the power would be out by now. It has been building since about noon today. A cold front has gone through the north end of the state. The temperature yesterday was around 100-104 and today it topped out at 93 and now it's in the 70's. Big change for this place. Most of the desert, at the south end where we live, is very fine dust. It can squirt into the house through almost imperceptible cracks and seams. My windows are closed tight and locked and it still finds its way in and onto the windows sills. I have a had a fine grit in my teeth for most of the day as small amounts of the stuff go in with every breath.

Correction, there was a gust of 72 just recorded. The walls and floors shake while this is going on. We've had several such nights since we moved here but not this bad. This is, here, what a thunderstorm is anywhere else...just no lightning. It's really quite impressive to see just what the wind can carry. Undoubtedly, my dashboard and steering wheel will be covered with it tomorrow morning.

When I got home, I put about 100 pounds of concrete pavers into the bottom of our new grill on the back porch so it doesn't go anywhere.

Weeeeeeeeeee.