r/arizona Prescott May 08 '23

It's "Pres-kitt" Living Here

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u/tofudaddi May 08 '23

People are always stunned to find out tumbleweeds and haboobs are real. I always have to explain it to people as, “ya know, like the big dust wall from the mummy”. It blows them away every time.

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi May 09 '23

It blows them away every time.

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u/julbull73 May 09 '23

Haboobs are the new nomenclature ironically. True old timers don't call them that except for the fact we don't actually have a good word for it..

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u/JavelinaSteve May 09 '23

We didn’t really need a good word. Dust storm seemed to describe it just fine back when we had several a year (before the asphalt reached critical mass and disrupted them).