The Gruen Transfer recently noted that even though Ansett went belly up ages ago, there's still a basketball club named after it: facebook.com/ansettdarwin
So, last night in Vegas was interesting. My first haboob! It crashed in so fast we were evacuating people off balconies at Defcon while debris was flying everywhere
Crazy stuff!
I mean, in Scotland we frequently have much higher winds but this was instant from zero to 75mph
@NeanDerThal: Do you have different words for different kinds of sand storms? Like the myth about how the Inuit have a hundred different words for "snow"? :)
