dust in the air

... and this is by far the clearest that it's been all day.  Mostly it's been thick adobe brown obscurity. We had 40 mph winds, gusting up to 60 or so, and around 2.30 this afternoon our phones screeched with an Emergency Warning telling us of dust storms with zero visibility, and so on.  I-40 was closed, with crashes on La Bajada.  It's a good job that Alice flew in yesterday, not today.  It took a while rescuing the big recycling bin from the ditch, and then its lid kept flying open and whopping me over the head as I dragged it back up the driveway.  New Mexico can be like this in March, I know - it is without argument my least favorite month here - but it's when Spring Break happens, so that is that ...