Apr 2, 2015

Shamal = North = Sandstorm

Last night a huge shamal hit!  Not sure where it started, but there's fantastic video of it hitting Riyadh and then about 8:30-9:00pm it hit us!  Since a picture's worth 1,000 words...
Last night during the storm...

 The next morning there was plenty of evidence that our house is NOT weatherproofed.
The left is our kitchen table after I moved the placemats.
The right is in front of our front door.

          Our back porch

 Those pavers are *usually* brick red.  Moved a pillow...
 
The picture doesn't do it justice...the amount of sand on the vehicle is crazy.


Same view as the first picture.  Better this morning, but it's still very hazy out.
Usually you can see buildings past the wall at the end.

Glad we rode out the storm with relatively little incident.  I brought in our large trash can, awesome OSU windmill, and made sure all the windows were closed. I went to sleep smelling dirt and woke up much the same way.

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