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it was about 10 feet high and about as powerful as a fart
Sounds like someone I know
Ahh, whirlwinds.... in Australia we called them dust-devils. Pretty cool to see, especially when they do pick up dirt, leaves and garbage.
Reminds me of my experience with an ozzy dust devil, I was travelling south through the desert towards Coober Pedy in a Toyota camper with a pop top that I`d bought 3 months earlier watching these things on the horizon they must have been at least a thousand feet high, and I remember saying to my girlfriend that I`d like to see one up close.
The very next moment an enormous one appeared no more than 50 yds to my right and within half a second we were in it and it was ripping our roof off, making a mess of us, trashing the inside of my van and throwing the whole roof (which was secured down at the time and I was travelling at about 60mph) including shredded canvas a good couple of hundred yards into the bush, I swear if the roof hadn`t come off the van would have been turned over as the thing literally dragged us up onto two wheels before the roof gave way.
I taped what was left of the roof back onto the van and then later on spent two weeks in Adelaide fixing it up.
Dust devils are best left on the horizon believe me..
I uploaded a picky of me using the vans new full length sunroof minutes after it happened.
Ha, everywhere I went in Adelaide people thought I was bullshitting as they`d never heard of it happening before.
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