Technology and Time

"What’s it like in Ramadi lately? The fighting continues, it’s getting hotter, and we ride the tides of time as we work through the final months of this experience. For the last few days, an inverse continent of thunderclouds has been hovering over us. And yesterday, beneath those clouds I experienced my first true sandstorm. I was standing outside talking to a couple of guys. It was windy and there was a strange brown glare all over. Then quite suddenly the wind picked up and we could feel the sand in the air. We immediately knew it was a sandstorm, and all of us put on goggles and walked out into it taking pictures. The forceful winds blew down antennae and camouflage netting. It blew the roof off of a huge tent. Vision was limited to a very short distance, but the whole thing lasted only a few minutes, and then big raindrops followed the wind that moved past us to another desert locale. It was a small natural phenomenon, but it was something different for a change. We were all smiling afterwards like people who just jumped into their cars dripping wet after getting caught in an unexpected rain storm."
Wordsmith at War