Saudi road pics

[EODguy]

They use water like other places but sometimes only what they carry on board.
So at least fire departments are better now.
Years ago a Mall caught fire and several women died because the firefighters wouldn't enter the women only floor.


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[X5chemist]

Wow, that's what separates us soldiers from everyone else. We run towards danger to take it head on.

[EODguy]

DMF'r on the way home today...

Happened in front of me.

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[X5chemist]

Ya need a recording camera! I have one on mine. I've caught a few close calls. Best video helped a neighbor track down a hit and run driver. The car took off just as I pulled up. My camera caught the license plate. Easy to power one from garage control wires.

[EODguy]

Originally Posted by X5chemist

Ya need a recording camera! I have one on mine. I've caught a few close calls. Best video helped a neighbor track down a hit and run driver. The car took off just as I pulled up. My camera caught the license plate. Easy to power one from garage control wires.

Can't, I work at their Pentagon basically and they seem to frown on them....

Don't ask me how I know!

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[EODguy]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8JNR...AxZHZkNGtwam9y

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[guntherrex]

I guess sandblasting is a regular occurance there

[EODguy]

Originally Posted by guntherrex

I guess sandblasting is a regular occurance there

Definitely.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to get the talcum powder type dust out from under my touch screen but it's in-between the inner and outer screen!

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[rwilson]

reminds me of west texas back when I worked the oil fields. Dust rags soaked with oil. empty glass bottles in the house half full with sand, etc.

[workingonit]

Originally Posted by rwilson

reminds me of west texas back when I worked the oil fields. Dust rags soaked with oil. empty glass bottles in the house half full with sand, etc.

I remember a few towering dust storms blow thru my neighborhood in SW Dallas, during the Texas drought of '57-60 (maybe later); my grandparent's house two houses down was our residence when the storms blew through, because they had A/C, and could close their windows, but my Dad had only a swamp cooler + attic fan, so he couldn't close all the windows in the sweltering heat.

Cousins visiting us (a family reunion, pre '60), during that era, talked about how bad it was in their towns of Monahans, Wink, Pecos, and Odessa, and I could see for myself, when my mother took me and my brothers to Midland (talk about a sparsley vegetated...no trees or grass to speak of...oiltown), for two weeks in 1960, to visit her sister, a secretary for Mobil Oil.

Not only did I get a duststorm, but a heavy thunderstorm, later, provided a lightning strike that set a huge oil tank (a couple of blocks away from my aunt's apartment) on fire, and the smoke plume towered over the city for days.

My X5 is a veteran of visiting the West Texas oilfields; previous owner #1 (I'm the third owner) was an oilman, and he used the X5 to visit the fields. Mostly flat lands traveled, and at highway speeds to get there, is probably why my X5 still is mechanically in good shape (at 211k miles, but the Aux fan just died the other day), though previous owner #2 did a lot of work preparing the X to hand over to me, in trade for my '66 Chevelle drag-car.

Perhaps we need another duststorm to blow thru today, to impart the current population with the knowledge of what our ancestors went through, on a regular basis, just a few generations ago. Not to mention the Dust Bowl era of the 1930's.