{"id":298,"date":"2011-07-06T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/haboob\/"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:01:03","slug":"haboob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/haboob\/","title":{"rendered":"Haboob!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a huge, gigantic dust storm (or &#8220;Haboob&#8221; in Arabic) hit the Phoenix area last night.  TV stations reported that it was 7000 feet high, and 50 miles wide.  It came into the  city like a huge wall, almost a tsunami of dust.  One minute the sun was shining, and the next it was night with visibility less than 100 feet.  Dust storms are common &#8212; we usually get a few each summer, but this was the largest I ever remember seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Old-timers say that the summer thunderstorms start after 3 dust storms.  I think this one might count as 3 all by itself!<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8W4Cx44XKZ4?version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8W4Cx44XKZ4?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a huge, gigantic dust storm (or &#8220;Haboob&#8221; in Arabic) hit the Phoenix area last night. TV stations reported that it was 7000 feet high, and 50 miles wide. It came into the city like a huge wall, almost a tsunami of dust. One minute the sun was shining, and the next it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}