haboob #2!

I checked the forecast yesterday.  It said that we were supposed to have one week of sunny skies with temperatures ranging between 102 and 109 degrees.  I decided this was a good time to wash my car.

That was a bad decision.

Apparently, conditions were right for a second haboob to hit the area.  And this time I didn't miss it.  Here are some photos.

Sadly, I did not take this picture.  I was napping during this phase of the haboob.  I like this picture though, because it was taken by my neighbor from the stairwell of my building.

From inside the haboob, everything is brown.

The camera on my phone did not capture the haboob very well.  When this picture was taken, the mountain was not at all visible and the sky was the same color as the building across the parking lot.  I think the camera managed to cut through the dust better than my human eyes could.

It was the strangest thing.  The entire sky was brown.  The sun couldn't cut through all the dust and so it was kind of dark and very, very brown.  The wind was blowing about 40 mph and the trees were bent very far over.  Dust was everywhere.  It smelled so bad and you could just tell you were inhaling dirt.  And then the torrential downpour began and turned everything to sludge.  Welcome to monsoon season in Arizona.  Yuck.

In other news, I was down in the screening area of the clinic today and ran into one of my favorite professors, Dr. S, doing a screening on a patient.  We managed to get assigned to a mother-daughter combo today.  (Yay!  More patients!)  The combo was good, because Dr. S definitely walked out of a screening today, looked at Mindi and I, gestured towards the man seated there, and said "what a cantankerous son of a bitch".  I love that she tells it like it is.  And I also love that she gave that patient to another student pair and we got the combo instead.  In general, I just love Dr. S.