The weather here is pretty incredible sometimes. This past week we had a sand storm that lasted about two or three days. Imagine you can see a decently heavy fog that obstructs your view of distant buildings and makes everything nearby look hazy. This is what a sand storm is like here, except it's not really sand at all, but very tiny particles of irritating dust. This dust just sort of hangs in the air for a couple days. It does end up falling down onto flat surfaces, creating what might resemble a light dusting of snow. Unfortunately, this dust is also very hard on your respiratory system and during the dust storms we've been privy to, our sinuses have been blocked for a couple days and we feel a little wheezy. When I was cleaning up our patio after a recent dust storm, the sweeping stirred up the dust and it got into my lungs. It causes a very uncomfortable and slightly painful sensation in your chest and throat that lasts for several hours. Next time I'm wearing a dust mask! It astounds me that there are men who work all day every day in this weather. How people native to this region have survived this long, I do not know.
Summer is in full swing and the temperature is constantly high. Yesterday it was about 113 degrees at about 11 in the morning. Yesterday night when I checked at 9:30 PM, it was 101 degrees still. And despite what you may think (with us being in the desert), it is extremely humid because we are surrounded by water. Shawn said the heat index on Base the other day was 127 degrees! It is HOT.
And the hotter it gets, the hotter our water gets. We have water reserve tanks on the roof of our building that supply our house water. Because they get heated up all day by the sun, the water that comes out of the pipes is very hot. The two settings of our water faucet are hot and hotter. It will be nice when we can have cool water again!
Augusta "I've-got-the-black-lung, Pa" Cherri
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