haboob two

Not one HABOOB, but two, and in the same month even. We discovered this one was happening earlier, while it was still daylight, so we were able to see it rolling in. We were just enjoying the pool again, so this was not a welcome sight.

The first one was definitely bigger as you can see in this great time lapse video. When we first started seeing the news clips and videos after the first one, the girls both said "just like Hidalgo!" And if you click on both of those highlighted words you can see what they mean. I've heard the one last night was 3,000 feet high. Fortunately, it seemed to have lost its gusto and didn't dump as much dust. At least in our area, anyway.

I did get a few photos. This is what it looked like when we first went outside. There were plenty of storm clouds brewing but you can see the dust cloud at the horizon:

Here it is with a little zoom on the lens: Hidlago? Yes?

A few minutes later:

A view from the back yard. You can see the edge of the Haboob just to the right of the palm trees:

The rest of the sky was really turning and rolling:

In the opposite direction of the Haboob...a rainbow.

Later... as it started to get closer...you could see the dust was starting to close in on us:

And the last shot I took before the sun went down. We went in and ate dinner, lamenting as to how everything would look in the morning and how we would be faced with another week of pool cleaning.

Here are two shots to compare. Haboob on the horizon. Mountain.
Haboob just beginning to surround our house. No mountain.

Morning appeared bright and sunny. And the good news? The pool is clear. I guess it just swirled around us and only left a very light dusting. Yay!

We survived the Haboobs!