red dust all over Texas?

[SandEagle]

anyone experience this? kinda strange...just ran across this article:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9369293

apparently lot of areas in southeast Texas were blanketed with red dust. what do you think? sand blown over? government conspiracy (e.g., chemtrails)? aliens/UFOs?

hold me. i'm scurred.

 

[Howard]

Fermented soylent green.

 

[NFS4]

Gingervitis?

 

[destrekor]

Did you read the article, at all?

The last paragraphs seem to spell it out clearly. The media just took the typical media route and made it sound like it isn't certain to keep the media attention and get more viewers on that topic alone; the individual reports + the NWS report = answer.

 

[Sinsear]

Mud showers from mexico


Seems like mexico sends us all the best stuff

 

[SandEagle]

Did you read the article, at all?

The last paragraphs seem to spell it out clearly. The media just took the typical media route and made it sound like it isn't certain to keep the media attention and get more viewers on that topic alone; the individual reports + the NWS report = answer.

of course i didn't read the article. but why now? why have we not seen this phenomena here before? something weird is going down.

 

[Jeff7]

Did you read the article, at all?

The last paragraphs seem to spell it out clearly. The media just took the typical media route and made it sound like it isn't certain to keep the media attention and get more viewers on that topic alone; the individual reports + the NWS report = answer.

"Wind causes dust to move to a different location. Stay tuned for more details. Then later in the show, we'll explore the curious phenomenon of 'gravity,' and how it could cause injury to your family."

 

[Markbnj]

"Wind causes dust to move to a different location. Stay tuned for more details. Then later in the show, we'll explore the curious phenomenon of 'gravity,' and how it could cause injury to your family."

LOL.

 

[CPA]

yep, still all over my truck and van.

 

[midnight growler]

Oklahoma is made of red dirt.

Wind.

 

[Jaskalas]

Dust and dirt in a desert...
and humans act like that's new...

 

[ImpulsE69]

It's the Martians terraforming Texas.

 

[CZroe]

It's the Martians terraforming Texas.

I guess the spores come first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R98cmjfrms

 

[Ken g6]

The "dirt" around here is red granite sand. Also, there's a red algae that grows in fish tanks if you don't clean them well.

 

[marvdmartian]

In Texas, we call that "normal". Most of western Texas and New Mexico has tons of it. It comes from red rocks. And red dirt. Plenty available in Arizona and parts of Utah and Colorado, too! :awe:

Shortly after I moved here, I came outside one morning, to go to work, and it looked as though someone had gone 4-wheeling with my truck the night before, and forgot to wash it. I remembered a storm front had blown through, but was still confused as to what happened.

Went into work, described the situation, and someone said, "Yeah, it rained mud last night". Um, WTF?? Seems that when the storm front pushed a cloud of red dust ahead of it, which coats everything, then rains just enough to make a mess on your vehicle, it has "rained mud". Go figure. :hmm:

 

[Maleficus]

Yeah... not the first time,

My beautiful silver car has a nice red tint to it :/

 

[destrekor]

In Texas, we call that "normal". Most of western Texas and New Mexico has tons of it. It comes from red rocks. And red dirt. Plenty available in Arizona and parts of Utah and Colorado, too! :awe:

Shortly after I moved here, I came outside one morning, to go to work, and it looked as though someone had gone 4-wheeling with my truck the night before, and forgot to wash it. I remembered a storm front had blown through, but was still confused as to what happened.

Went into work, described the situation, and someone said, "Yeah, it rained mud last night". Um, WTF?? Seems that when the storm front pushed a cloud of red dust ahead of it, which coats everything, then rains just enough to make a mess on your vehicle, it has "rained mud". Go figure. :hmm:

Actually, it can literally rain muddy water.

A cloud of dust carried on wind can actually get mixed into/enveloped by a storm front, or it's lower than the storm clouds, and the rain and mud actually mix before the droplets hit the ground.

That's why some have reported actually seeing dirty and/or red-tinted rain.
It probably happens just as often either way - mixing on contact at ground, or mixing in the air - both are scenarios equally possible, if the dust on the ground situation isn't altogether more likely.

 

[Jeff7]

Actually, it can literally rain muddy water.

A cloud of dust carried on wind can actually get mixed into/enveloped by a storm front, or it's lower than the storm clouds, and the rain and mud actually mix before the droplets hit the ground.

That's why some have reported actually seeing dirty and/or red-tinted rain.
It probably happens just as often either way - mixing on contact at ground, or mixing in the air - both are scenarios equally possible, if the dust on the ground situation isn't altogether more likely.

Cool. More biblical disasters:
- Raining blood? Or just some dusty precipitation.
- Raining locusts or frogs? A group of them could be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The survivors will have some interesting stories to tell their offspring though.

 

[IEC]

Nothing here.

 

[ringtail]

The Colorado river often runs red through Arizona.

It's the iron oxide in the dust blown into texas from New Mexico & Arizona.

Link

Or else it's paprika the aliens are sprinkling on you before they eat you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Could it be some "mars" dust that is leaking from the set where they are filming the rover and taking all the mars pictures? :biggrin:

Actually if that is actually rust, gather up that shit yo. You just need aluminium dust now and you can make some thermite!

 

[ElFenix]

yep, still all over my truck and van.

car washes on sunday and monday were packed. HEB's laser wash didn't get all of mine off.


that stuff is common out west but only gets to SE texas every few years or so.

 

[Wreckem]

car washes on sunday and monday were packed. HEB's laser wash didn't get all of mine off.


that stuff is common out west but only gets to SE texas every few years or so.

I believe the Houston area got one last December prior to Xmas. I say that because I went on a cruise out of Galveston last year prior to Xmas and when we came back the parking lot was giving free car washes because of a dust storm.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Powdered blood?

 

[BladeVenom]

Aliens!