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Igel

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16. I haven't been through one this size.

Reply to maspaha (Reply #15)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:09 PM

Aug 26

Haven't been to Arizona in over a decade, and not at the right time for years before that.

This isn't an aberration, except maybe for size. Haboobs happen.

Dust bowl, it ain't. (And most of the orange groves are paved over from my first visit there in '72. Still, the agriculture don't much care. Haboob and monsoons are correlated.)

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I haven't been through one this size. Igel Aug 26 #16