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Good video clip here:

Wasn't real thrilling even inside our house. Thickest I've ever seen. Wind so strong it was banging HV power lines together... many repetitions of blinking and fading lights... but we never lost power completely. ...Jim Thompson

When I saw that cloud waltzing across Phoenix in the news yesterday night I thought, maybe Jim ventured outside of IC design, did a "real" circuit, flicked the power switch and ... *PHOOMP*

:-)

When I was growing up N of Phx during the 50's & 60's the dust storms happened several times every summer. Most weren't too bad but I recall a few real nasty ones. One was so thick we couldn't see the car parked in the driveway, maybe 20' away. Another one clogged the evaporation pads of the swamp cooler with a coating of mud so thick no air could get thru. Lastly, and most memorably, we had left the windows open while out shopping and returned to a mess which we literally had to sweep and shovel out. Then they stopped for a few decades. Now they're back. Sort of. Art

People are always raggin' me about how horrible a place San Francisco is. Right now, it's sunny and 66F and crystal clear. The wind's from the west, as usual, so the nearest major source of pollen and crud is Japan.

I'm a pollen refugee, pushed as close to the west coast as I can get.

John

I had an employee who cleaned his house by turning on the cooler, opening a window at the far end of his house, then walking thru with the hose from his air compressor blowing the dust off of the furniture ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Of course, it's radioactive pollen....

A bit of cognitive dissonance seeing this reported by a Seattle TV station. If ever we had dust blow over our city, it would come down as mud.

It actually did. I remember when the car rental place gave me a spare air filter so I could swap it after a week, on account of the gray stuff that Mount St.Helens decided it not longer wanted to keep. It wasn't from the main explosion but many years later.

One thing I've noticed since we have the cooler: When it runs pretty much flat-out day and night because the weather is hot then the amount of dust in the house seems to be lower.

No "dust", just very fine calcium deposits on everything :-( ...Jim Thompson

We never have any of that, maybe our water is better. Couldn't you have run a filter in front of the flaot valve?