Guess what... More dust.

Much larger dust storm today than I have seen before. It was everywhere, not just isolated in a small area where the dirt was being moved around. My M-16 is filthy, my uniform puts out little clouds of dust when you pat it, the little air holes in my hat are filled with dust. It sticks to your eyelashes, nose hairs, everything. Somehow it even got all the way to the bottom of the pen pocket on my sleeve and stuck all over my pen.

That is what the sun looks like in a dust storm. You can actually look at it. It looks like the moon. Very strange.


Another shot of the sun. I decided not to edit the color on these pictures so you can see what it really looked like. Yes, everything is really orange like you see in the pictures. It's the weirdest thing ever to step out from a building after being inside for a while and see everything in orange/yellow. It literally felt like I had on yellow/orange tented sunglasses or something. Very creepy.


Visibility was only a couple hundred feet. After a while I could feel dust grinding between my teeth. Awesome. Also, last night it actually rained pretty hard. Hard enough to wake me up with the noise on the metal roof of my trailer. It apparently either poors rain in a big storm here, or doesn't rain at all.


This is one of the crazy trucks they drive around here. I'd like to get some more pictures of the dump trucks, which I'll post when I get them. They are very unique. A lot of the dump trucks are decked out with chrome hubcaps, Mercedes logos plastered all over the place, furry dashboards and seat covers, dangling tassels draped all over the ceiling of the cab and in front of the windshield, etc. They are all painted bright colors and frequently have Mercedes or other random sayings painted all over them. They are apparently really proud that they drive Mercedes brand dump trucks, even if they look like they are 30 years old. The drivers also wear the traditional head scarf things and frequently wear mirrored Aviator sunglasses as well, so they look pretty interesting stepping out of their chrome-plated dump trucks.