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Show Being sprinkled with g "Moon Dust" can create ilOi? Weird" situations By Mary Gae Evans PAKOWAN - What was that stuff? Has the drouth gotten so bad that its raining dirt from the clouds instead of the usual wet mixture of snow and sleet. It seems everyone in Utah was bombarded last week with a fine powdery but sticky coat of crud from the sky. No one seems to be able to explain what it was but our whole state now needs to be run through a car wash. Some people were driven to irrational acts by this phenomenan like washing windows and one ambitious or "crazy" lady I saw was washing her whole house on the outside. Doors were speckled and clothes on the lines had to be rewashed. I hate to think what our lungs look like after breathing the stuff. Owners of car washes made enough money to do their Christmas shopping early, and the kids -- well, the kids loved it because the dirt on the insulators on the power poles shorted out and started a few fires and school had to be dismissed at the Parowan schools for Monday afternoon because of the power outage. Some teachers may require psychiatric care after being cooped up all morning with the students in a dark building Monday morning. But the kids had a ball. Residents of Parowan are learning after several days of power outages how to cope with living without electricity, cooking over a candle flame and washing clothes in the bathroom sink. It's a little harder to adjust to a TV set that is dark and silent when "The Young and the Restless should be tearing away at your heart strings. We get so we forget how many things are run by electricity, principal Dotson said one of the kids at school suggested they see a film since the power was off and they couldn't do anything else. And I thought of sewing since I couldn't watch TV or do the washing. Funniest thing the machine didn't run too good. I wonder if anyone really analyzed that wierd coat of dirty film that covered us. Was it dirt, salt, alkali or moon dust. Some people blamed the lake, others the desert and others the cloud seeding going on around the state. Everyone has given it the taste test, and its salty and I must say a bit grainy. I don't know about you but I'm sure it came straight out of the twilight zone. Next thing we know it will be raining cats and dogs as the saying goes or maybe frogs - who knows. I'm going to get my umbrella out and be prepared for anything. |
