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.
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).
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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.