Around 1985, I was driving on a dirt road between Dodge City and Garden City. I saw a storm approaching and it turned out to be dust.
I had to pull over because the visibility was poor. It had a slight reddish tint and also made the radio fail. It didn’t last too long and I didn’t see any mention of it on the news.
Still a really big one would be bad.
Or live in Lubbock, Texas to experience dust storms several times a year.
After an extremely snowy and rainy winter, the Pacific Northwest is expected to have major fires this summer. MAJOR. Spokane and Coeur d’Alene are predicted to have worst air in America. Smoke from forests and also from flatlands with few trees but grass, planted and wild.
Drove through a dust storm in Oklahoma to pick up a troop’s wife at a more distant airport because the storm had canceled connecting flights...had hair-line scratches in the windshield and paint when all was said and done and had to change the air filter and hope the engine hadn’t gotten an internal “polish”..