Transportation
Arizona's DOT Fights Haboobs with Haiku
"Stop with the driving / already. It's a freaking / mile-high cloud of dust."
Today marks the beginning of the Southwest's monsoon season, a climatological event that sees a heavy tonnage of water wafting into the state from the gulfs of California and Mexico. The result: cracking thunderstorms, windshield-breaking hail, flash floods and these lung-pummeling things called "haboobs."