#GetMovin So in October 2015 I experienced my first legit #SandStorm and it‘s no joke. This photo is NOT filtered, the entire country was literally covered in a brown haze~ my neighborhood looked like a sepia photo. School was canceled for days, no birds could be seen or heard and the air quality was disastrous. For the first time I realized, Holy Crap....#ILiveInADesert 🌵photo from Google 🌵BTW; tagged book sounds awesome! Has anyone read it?
DebinHawaii That would be scary! I remember when St. Helens blew in Washington in 1980 it dumped a bunch of ash on us in Portland and everything was gray. It seemed so eerie and apocalyptic--this picture makes me think of that. 😱 6y
WorldsOkayestStepMom I've read most of the Sigma Force series and LOVED all of them. My husband and I both love Rollins's writing and buy all of his books! 6y
emilyhaldi Wow 😱 that‘s hard to imagine. Glad it doesn‘t happen too often!! 6y
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Cinfhen Thanks for the feedback @WorldsOkayestCatMom I‘m gonna look out for this book... 6y
Cinfhen I‘ve experienced some wild stuff @DebinHawaii @emilyhaldi since moving overseas😜but I keep telling my son, it makes for good stories (or Litsy photo prompts 😂) 6y
Eggs What an incredible photo! But tough to be in the middle of it 😱 6y
tammysue Oh no I can‘t even imagine 😳 6y
Cinfhen It‘s hard to describe @Eggs @whatshesreadingnow but it felt like one of the Biblical 10 plagues 6y
Kalalalatja I can‘t even imagine! It must have gotten everywhere! 😱 6y
quietlycuriouskate That is frightening! 😨 6y
TrishB 😮😮 makes grey skies look positively inviting! 6y
Cinfhen Truth @TrishB it was horrible @Kalalalatja @River_Voice so eerie 6y
Chellebearss Wow! 😮 6y
Cathythoughts O M G not a good experience 😟 6y
RohitSawant Gosh, that's terrifying! 6y
Centique That is SO scary! 😳 6y
Cinfhen It didn‘t seem real @Chellebearss @Cathythoughts @rohit-sawant @Centique and I couldn‘t explain to people what it felt like to be enveloped in sand & dust. Felt like an ancient curse. 6y
alisiakae I‘ve been caught in a sandstorm@in AZ before, but it wasn‘t on that magnitude! Scary! 6y
DivineDiana What an experience! Did everyone stay inside? Did businesses close like in a snowstorm? And yes, it does make a very interesting Litsy post! 😉 6y
GripLitGrl Wow that's pretty crazy! Glad it's not something that happens too frequently. 6y
Cinfhen They do occur about one a year but 2015 & 2016 we‘re both pretty intense @GripLitGrl @DivineDiana @4thhouseontheleft I can‘t recall businesses closing but we pretty much stayed in for a solid three days, Diana. 6y
DivineDiana Sounds like a wise plan! 6y
TEArificbooks When we moved to the desert everyone warned us about the heat in summer, 3 months 110 plus temps. We adapted, we went to the stores at night after dark and stayed in during the day. We start our car early to cool it down instead of heating it up. No one warned me about the wind and sand storms. We get lots. 6y
TEArificbooks Sometimes it is just windy and it makes you cough and sneezy and you see dust in air miles away. Other times it is strong enough to reduce visiblity to a mile and we can see the mountains a half mile from my house. The epic ones are awful and we don't leave house. We have been in some storms so bad it is like a hollywood movie, you see the approaching rolling cloud of sand coming over mts. Trees and power lines down etc. 6y
Cinfhen What part of the world are you in @mdm139 ??? 6y
TEArificbooks @cinfen, mojave desert 6y
Cinfhen Cool! That‘s really desert!!! @mdm139 (edited) 6y
LeahBergen Wow! 😮😮 6y
Mdargusch Wow! 🤦🏼♀️ 6y
Blaire Wow! That looks like a scene out of a dystopian novel/movie. 6y
Cinfhen Yup!!! WOW @LeahBergen @Mdargusch @Blaire felt a little bit like Dorothy when she realizes she‘s not in Kansas anymore 👠😜 6y
TorieStorieS I‘m starting this book now, actually- but what a perfect photo for it! And yikes!! 😬 5y
Cinfhen Let me know how the book is!!! It sounds really good but.... @TorieStorieS #pagecountphobia and yes, that #sandstorm was scary as hell. It was straight out of an apocalyptic movie (edited) 5y