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west texan: Haboob in Lubbock TX! - 10/19/11 07:36 AM

Well, being a native West Texan I did not realize there was a term for 'enormous sand storm' that I didn't know. Then two days ago a wall of dust, the leading edge of a cold front, blew into the city. So the news folks were glibly using the term "haboob". I googled the term and found it is an arabic word that means enormous sand storm...or something like that. It was truly the worst I have ever seen but not the only one. In May 1970, the same month as the Lubbock tornado, a haboob (see how casually I … (1 comments)

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