08-04-2018, 07:41 AM
Good morning and a happy weekend for you all. Driving around town yesterday was a challenge thanks to the storm the night before. Trees down everywhere, streets, sidewalks and parking lots. The same goes for flooding, barricades all over the place and crews busy cutting up what fell. The TV news show shots of buildings with the roofs torn off and trailers laying on their sides. Even the power company is busy, power polls down in a few areas, but worse, some 500KV towers look like some giant stepped on them. It's hard to believe that these towers can be affected by wind, but considering the size of the dust storm it did happen. They say it was around 75 miles wide and almost a mile high. The area where Ray M lives was evacuated because of flooding.
For those of you that aren't familiar with our dust storms, here's a few shots of one that I used in a newspaper article that I wrote back in 2007. These shots aren't that different from the ones they've been showing on TV of the storm a few days ago, just maybe the recent one was a lot bigger.
For those of you that aren't familiar with our dust storms, here's a few shots of one that I used in a newspaper article that I wrote back in 2007. These shots aren't that different from the ones they've been showing on TV of the storm a few days ago, just maybe the recent one was a lot bigger.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD