"Just like being back in Iraq"

Or at least that what I heard a guy say in Walmart this afternoon. It was quite a wind/sand storm out there today. We had gusts of about 60 mph. We never completely lost power, but had it surge in and out quite a bit this afternoon. The sky was very eerie and orange, and the partially blocked sun gave everything thing a weird glow. A couple houses in our neighborhood lost quite a few shingles, but fortunately all are accounted for on our house. I had to steal this photo from the Dallas Morning News to show you out-of-towners what it was like: