13/Jul/2005 10:24 Filed in:
Life in
Timbuktu
I looked up from what I was working on, having
noticed that it seemed dimmer that it had been.
Glancing out the window I saw the sky had gone sort
of yellow. A sure sign a dust storm was approaching.
I got up to have a better view and thus determine if
it was to be a real
tempet de sable or
simply a strong wind stirring up the dust into the
lower atmosphere. What I saw was a massive swirling
swarming turbulent bank of yellow brown all across
the eastern horizon and curling round the north and
south as well.
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Tags: sandstorm, Sahara