I posted this a couple of days back. We were staying at an Airbnb in Pueblo CO and it is pretty much desert there. Scorpions and rattlesnakes. Some had stone and dirt yards. These folks just went astroturf
Not New England related, but as we were returning our rental car at DEN we experienced their early evening daily dust storm/ wind event. Pretty amazing (and annoying). I will be bringing parts of the western plains home in my hair and teeth.
We were driving through a mountain pass at around 10k yesterday in Colorado. Intense lightning and downpouring rain on steep curvy roads. A couple of hundred feet higher up there had been a ton of hail but the road didn’t get it