Sandy, not the girl
It's not easy to get a good picture of a sandstorm. Usually, pictures don't do them justice and video sometimes doesn't even define the essence that is blowing sand. The picture below is the sun. At 2 pm. And yes, those are the street lights that are on. If this were Cairo, 'on' streetlights during daylight hours would not be something out of the ordinary. Here in Bahrain, the lights are all fancy-like with them new-fangled sensors that flick the light on at dusk & flick 'em off when the sun comes out.
This was a particularly mild one, lasting just the duration of the day. I like to be inside and pretend that it's a cloudy, overcast, thunderstorm-y day. And really, two out of three isn't bad! The aftermath of a sandstorm; little piles of sand by all the crevices in the house, isn't the greatest, either. I could do without them. But hey, what 'cha gonna do when you live in a sandbox?
This was a particularly mild one, lasting just the duration of the day. I like to be inside and pretend that it's a cloudy, overcast, thunderstorm-y day. And really, two out of three isn't bad! The aftermath of a sandstorm; little piles of sand by all the crevices in the house, isn't the greatest, either. I could do without them. But hey, what 'cha gonna do when you live in a sandbox?
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We had a bit of a rain here recently, and I was surprised. It just started raining. There was no real dust or sand to kick it off. I've developed a fanciful mental picture of weather here... a wave-like storm front rushes across the land, pushing air ahead of itself, kicking up a moving wall of dust or sand, which is what hits, usually, before the wet arrives. But, not this time. Sneaky.
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