Heavy Dust Storm

Yesterday, we wanted some seafood and decided to eat out…Clouds were gathering all around and there were some cumulus with moderate tops…We ate our meal early and started home…About ten miles from home I saw a helicopter nose down and went behind a hill…I told Mary Ann that a helicopter might have gone down and proceeded to watch for smoke…There was none…When arrived in the area where it looked as though is had gone down, we found it…The engine was in its cool down mode…The crew was tying it down…I looked to the northeast and a solid wall of dust was rolling in…I understood why the chopper went down so rapidly…We hit the dust cloud about a mile later and the wind was blowing about forty knots (my estimate)…It started raining mud and then we were through the dust and into solid rain…At least it washed the mud from the car…It was the first real dust storm I have been in since I left Lubbock…We got a hard rain for a few minutes which we badly needed…Today I have to get a package off to my sister…I have been trying to finish it…I know you probably think I am procrastinating, but I have really been busy…Well I will talk to you later…Philip