Well, we were recently hit with the usual summer storms. A haboob (dust storm) followed by a monsoon (rain storm). They are intense!
The haboob usually starts out as a yellow haze in the distance that becomes brown as it nears. This is followed by the taste and smell of dry dirt which you can then feel as a grittiness in your eyes and sneeziness in your nose. (Is too a word. Look it up.) The storm then rages on with no visibility and winds that are not only high winds but also low. As in under your lawn furniture.
Hot on the heels of the haboob is the monsoon. Think of a rainstorm you've driven in where the water comes down so fast that your windshield wipers can't keep up with it. Then take THAT and do this: (THAT x 4) + (wind raised to the 8th power) and you sort of get an idea of what we're talking about.
Then with a gentle sigh the monsoon sweeps away towards the next target as you survey the damage to your pergola, grill, firepit, table, radio, lights, roof tiles, and so on. Obviously it is not the fault of the haboob nor monsoon that a giant chose that moment to stomp on your pergola and ride his pet unicorn over the top of your grill and firepit. Obviously. And everyone knows that unicorns love to take the glass out of your outdoor table and fling the entire pane 10 feet to the back wall so they can hear the shattering. I've been told it reminds the unicorn of the tinkling noise made by a thousand fireflies in flight. To me it just sounds like a call to the insurance adjuster. But hey, to each his own.
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