{"id":438,"date":"2009-04-08T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-04-09T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T07:07:19","slug":"hanging-on-to-our-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/438","title":{"rendered":"Hanging on to our hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/windy_5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-439 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" title=\"windy_5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/windy_5-300x260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/windy_5-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/windy_5.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been super-windy here this week, and today was the worst. It blew so hard that glasses in the house shook. We have heard there have been gusts up to 60 mph.<\/p>\n<p>I had to drive to Phoenix today, and on the way to Road Forks, I could see huge clouds of blowing dirt out in the distance. It was like nothing I&#8217;ve ever seen. (By the way, if you ever decide to surprise visit us, as one of my friends did, don&#8217;t take the Portal exit off the highway. It is 50 miles on mountain dirt roads that sometimes aren&#8217;t passable without 4wd. Take the Road Forks exit in NM instead. It is pavement the whole way and a very easy, pleasant drive.)<\/p>\n<p>Actually, to the east of us on the 10, there are many signs on the highway that warn of dust storms and possible &#8220;ZERO VISIBILITY CONDITIONS&#8221;. The signs actually warn you not to stop in a moving lane if this happens&#8230;good advice I think. Anyway, we&#8217;ve laughed at these signs many times, but today was the first time I could actually imagine that this might happen. Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t have to go that way. To the west, where I was going, was very windy but not dangerously so.<\/p>\n<p>With all this wind and seeing the effect on areas that have been overgrazed or plowed, I can almost imagine conditions during the Dust Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been super-windy here this week, and today was the worst. It blew so hard that glasses in the house shook. We have heard there have been gusts up to 60 mph. I had to drive to Phoenix today, and on the way to Road Forks, I could see huge clouds of blowing dirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}