<div dir="ltr"><div>Irene drove to Phoenix for a craft market last weekend. She diverted into the Gila because of wind, then overnighted in Lordsburg overlooking hundreds of long haul truckers crammed into the Love's truck stop by I-10 closure at Tucson. (Stuck in old Lordsburg, again?)</div><div><br></div><div>I was in a doctor's waiting room on Monday morning when all the phones started receiving dust storm alerts in sequence. I thought it was a fire alarm at first.</div><div><br></div>We drove from Las Cruces to see a doctor in El Paso on Thursday. We were in a dust cloud all the way there and back, an hour on secondary roads both ways. Visibility less than 100 yards at times. Like driving in a blizzard with very fine brown snow, complete with the swirling streams crossing the road and attempting to form drifts.<div><br></div><div>It was sunny on our way there yesterday for another doctor visit and a visitor pickup at the airport. But the dust came back on our way home, the Organ Mountains were not visible as we pulled into Cruces. I was in a radiologist waiting room an hour later when another swarm of dust storm warnings went off. Visibility down to 100 yards again. Organs still invisible when we drove out to dinner, but the sky had finally cleared for our drive home.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice today, but cold.</div><div><br></div><div>Need to get the mechanic to check our air filters.<br><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4295801255341511847"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4295801255341511847WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I ride my bike up in the Berkeley and Oakland hills a lot. Berkeley area is the worst. On many streets, the people that live up there park their cars on either side of the sidewalk. Cause it is their god given right to private storage on public roads. There’s no possible way for them get out of there in a fire like that one using a car. Many of those roads are barely even one-way as it is.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">But golly, NOAA and FEMA, who needs that?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>>, Stephen Guerin <<a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Albuquerque, NM<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.weather.gov/abq/" target="_blank">https://www.weather.gov/abq/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks for the heads-up! I find those sorts of days terrify me because what happened in the Oakland Berkeley fire in 91 when I was there on sabbatical. The city burned so fast that when the trucks got the source of the fire in the hills, it had already burned down into to the center. It took about a half an hour to burn DOWN a thousand feet. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If you scroll down to the satellite map in the link above you can see the jet streak nosing into the sw corner of the image. 300 mb surface Image below shows the same thing. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Steve, should we be packing a go bag?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">N<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><img border="0" width="488" height="342" style="width: 5.0833in; height: 3.5625in;" id="m_-4295801255341511847_x0000_i1025" src="cid:ii_19577f11582cb971f161"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..<br>
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