As we left Tuscon to head west there were dark clouds and lightning all around and we noticed the dust starting to lift in the valley. We were soon in the think of it and struggling to see. Traffic slowed down marginally. We saw a news item later that showed a huge dust storm rolling in over Phoenix not far to the north.
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| Dust limits visibility on International Highway 10 west of Tucson. |
Then it started to rain. Heavily. We couldn't see a thing. Traffic slowed down, marginally. It rained for the next 150 miles as we drove west through the desert. There were flash floods in some places I heard, and one person is missing believed drowned.
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| The desert was awash. |
And then the sunlight lightened the clouds and I could see the sun through the dust that was blowing up again near Yuma on the Californian border. What I had thought would be an uneventful three-hour road trip turned out to be quite dramatic.
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