{"id":796,"date":"2011-10-18T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-10-18T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:19:09","slug":"8000-foot-high-dust-storm-roils-through-texas-south-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/8000-foot-high-dust-storm-roils-through-texas-south-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"8,000 Foot high dust storm roils through Texas South Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dust kicked up by westerly breezes ahead of a strong cold front restricted visibility in Lubbock to about 5 miles all afternoon, said National Weather Service Lubbock meteorologist Matt Ziebell.<\/p>\n<p>That was nothing compared to the 8,000-foot-high rolling dust cloud that moved through the city just before 6 p.m., dropping visibility to between zero and less than a quarter of a mile, Ziebell said.<\/p>\n<p>North winds gusting as high as 74 mph had begun forming the dust cloud about 100 miles north of Lubbock around 4:30 p.m., he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It went from light to dark, just like that,&#8221; said Lubbock convenience store clerk Alma Williams. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it. It really scared me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tauoBRoRlzU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"380\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/44939529\/ns\/weather\/#.Tp0ZK5tKO4Q\">Dust storm roils through Texas South Plains &#8211; Weather &#8211; msnbc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust kicked up by westerly breezes ahead of a strong cold front restricted visibility in Lubbock to about 5 miles all afternoon, said National Weather Service Lubbock meteorologist Matt Ziebell. That was nothing compared to the 8,000-foot-high rolling dust cloud that moved through the city just before 6 p.m., dropping visibility to between zero and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22,231],"tags":[232,473,46,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}