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[indri]

Last night, walking home, we walked through half-a-dozen dust devils. These are swirls of leaves and dust, perhaps a few metres high, whipped around by the wind. They're a sort of loose and saggy micro version of a tornado. I've seen them before, of course, but never before in the centre of town. The rest of tthe time, the wind was gusty but mostly going in a straight line, a genuine dust storm.

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[indri]

Did anything ever happen once you caught one?

[rahirah]

We got a lot of dust up out noses. If it was a small one, we could disrupt it by dancing around in it. If it was larger, it'd usually just blow right by us.