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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>]

At 10:32 PM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
> And I look forward to visiting again this fall.  I am in Texas and will be
> for the next couple of weeks then it is maybe Missouri.  I will be heading
> for NC in early September.

Don,

I just read your journal about the sandstorm you hit.  You were smart to 
seek shelter.  I was born and grew up in Texas just north of where you have 
been driving, and remember harsh sandstorms, some lasting for days.  My Dad 
built us a new house in the '50s, and used all the tricks he knew to make 
it tight.  Even then, sand would get into the house, and there would be a 
fine layer of dust over everything after a sandstorm.  Sand would go where 
water could not.  My Mother kept a boiling pot of water on the stove during 
sandstorms just to put a little humidity back in the air.

Jerry S.