From A Wide Spot In The Road

A sixty mile per hour wind blew into Norman a few minutes ago pushed by a thunderstorm.
Lots of lightening, hardly see across the street for the rain, almost a White out. A couple
Days ago this blew through my former hometown of Lubbock, TX.

A thunderstorm pushing a wall of dust across that flat country.

 

I think that's called a "haboob," Bill. I didn't know you were from Lubbock.

 

@Beth Gallagher, Yep, lived there forty-seven years. what do you know about that part of the world?

 

Wow, @Bill Boggs. That looks like something from an end of the world movie! Did you ever see anything like that?

 

@Shirley Martin, yes ma'am, seen bunches out in that part of the world.

 

Did they scare the crap out of you? They would me.

 

I've seen pictures and videos like that taken in the 1930's. It looks the same. Yikes.

 

Not a lot, but have traveled through the area. (I'm in Houston.) My ex husband is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech.

 

@Shirley Martin, I lived southwest of Lubbock in the forties and fifties when a sandstorm would get so intense
it would get dark and the street lights would be turned on or you might not be able to see across thje street.
Sometime these sand storms would last for hours, sometime for days. I rember mom wetting towels and sheets
and hanging them over doors and winmdows to keep out the dust and dirt. But the land was sandy and farmers had
not yet learned how to plant and manage the soil.

 

Bought a new microwave last weekend. It was installed today. It is an over the stove type
to replace one that went out last year or so. We have been using an on the counter micro
wave that was never really any good. From the get go it burned everything on the bottom.
It has ruined more Mexican food and burned up more TV dinners than I can remember. I
don't know why we didn't do this sooner.I hope this new one cooks good.

I got up early and weighed this morning, somewhere around six-thirty. I was light headed
again. After breakfast around nine-thirty,I went back to bed and slept a couple of hours.
When I got up I was clear-headed, think goodness. This has been going on almost daily.
I am baffled; so is my doctor. But it is clear now.

The wind here is blowing gently fifteen to twenty. My bamboo is swaying back and forth.
I have been on the computer most of the afternoon, reading and writing. I am re-reading
some of Larry McMurtry's stuff. And so it goes.

 

Are you reading, "Lonesome Dove?" it's one of the best books I ever read.

 

One of the best.

 

No, not Lonesome Dove, although that is one of my favorite all time books. Reading Dead Man's Walk,
Commache Moon, and Streets of Larado.

 

I love McMurtry. My favorite was Terms of Endearment.