Right now weather.com says the winds in Abilene are 43 mph. This seems slow, given that it literally feels like a hurricane outside. A hurricane of dust and debris. Literally everything is either blown over or covered with dust, or both, including the big dumpster behind my house. We tried to have a cookout for our Mexico team today, but had to end up packing up and taking it inside because we could not keep anything down, plus you could hardly hold your eyes open without them getting coated with dirt. One of our girls damaged someone else's car when her door blew open out of her hands. A couple of our cakes blew away.

Welcome to Abilene Dust Bowl 2007! I can hear the local car wash owners licking their chops right now.