{"id":395,"date":"2008-08-12T19:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-08-12T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:04:51","slug":"mother-of-all-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Mother of All Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday I on my way home from San Diego I could see huge cumulus clouds building up in the East but one thing I have learned from flying, it is impossible to know how far away they are – could have been over home, or all the way to AZ or CO.<\/p>\n

Got down to the Valley floor and there was a wall of grey 10 miles ahead. A huge storm cloud tilted in the sky, the left hand side tipping all the way to the desert floor. To the right, a veil of darkness. Hmm.. this was going to be interesting.<\/p>\n

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Inside the cloud it started to hail, giant balls of hail banging on the glass. The wind was fierce and visibility went down to maybe 20 feet. A lot of people had pulled off onto the hard shoulder but the storm wasn’t moving and I figured I could be stick there for ages. So I kept going, but at 20 mph or so, watching the white line real close. Yeah, I had the camera for a while but soon realised I was in enough danger as it was, no need for more.<\/p>\n

Finally got outside the storm but it looked filthy in the sky in all directions,. A few miles later, a large brown curtain masked the road ahead. No rain this time but the storm winds had whipped up tons of sand and dirt and for a few seconds it was almost total brown-out. Scary stuff.<\/p>\n

I was glad to get home and, I thought, get to enjoy experiencing the storm from under our patio roof (I have an extreme weather fetish) but the storm stayed to the west and the north of us. Naturally, I had washed the car on Sunday and now on Friday it was all dirty again.<\/p>\n

It was also the first time for me to try out my new Anywhere Travel Companion<\/a>, an aviation and street GPS unit. Maybe more on the latter in a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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