Ready for the next eclipse

When our friend Connie, who lives in Arizona, heard about our inability to look at the most recent eclipse straight on, because all we had were sunglasses, she sent us some eclipse glasses that we should get to use in October 2014.  Thanks, Connie!  But please don't send a Phoenix haboob our way! I think we'd need goggles for that.



The following is from Wikipedia, which reports a haboob in Ransom City, Texas, near Lubbock, in 2009:

A haboob (Arabic: هَبوب‎ "strong wind") is a type of intense duststormcarried on an atmospheric gravity current. Haboobs are regularly observed in arid regions throughout the world. . . .Haboob winds in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Kuwait, and North America are frequently created by the collapse of a thunderstorm, while haboobs in Australia may be frequently associated with cold fronts. The deserts of Central Australia, especially near Alice Springs, are particularly prone to Haboobs with the sand and debris reaching several kilometers into the sky and leaving up to a foot of sand covering everything in its path. The arid and semiarid regions of North America – in fact, any dryland region – may experience haboobs. In the USA, they are frequently observed in the deserts of Arizona, including Yuma and Phoenix,^[2][3] as well as New Mexico and Texas.