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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: May 8, 2012
Description: It can be tough doing cross country duty. A new tire with a slow leak makes it tougher. A miniature air pump and power from the old police cruiser makes it a little easier.
Date Taken: May 8, 2012
Place Taken: Stephenville, TX
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 507, SeaReys to Seattle
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Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Wind is good for the turbines, not so good for SeaReys. It tumbles off the stacked plains and rocks the ‘Rey.      Attachments:  

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Wind Power

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    The remnants of the old rocks lie lined up like broken bones in a paleontologist’s dig.      Attachments:  

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Lined with Rocks

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    The creek was tempting, but it was just a bit too narrow and shallow.      Attachments:  

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Almost Visited

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    The ruins have been overrun by previously displaced mesquite.      Attachments:  

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ReTaken by the Mesquite

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Lake Stamford would have been too tempting to pass up if it wasn’t surrounded by people and houses.      Attachments:  

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Bypassed Too

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Paying crops surround islands of antiques.      Attachments:  

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Antique Islands

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    The flat farms are a patchwork of colors.      Attachments:  

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Quilted Land

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    West Texas: the Great Mesa is flat wide and open.      Attachments:  

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Crop Cruising

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Would it stain a white hull to land in such rusty water?      Attachments:  

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Red Running Water

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    A lone outlier of the great plain (Llano Estacado) being eaten by erosion.      Attachments:  

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Outlier

    
  
Don Maxwell - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Interesting formation. Not much of a mesa now.     
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    It’s tough terrain, even for mesquite, where the land is crumbling away.      Attachments:  

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Hard to Grow

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    The Tongue River near Roaring Springs makes up in color what it lacks in water.      Attachments:  

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Sandy Tongue

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    These farmers really roll with the sprinklers.      Attachments:  

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Rolling Fields

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Can a little SeaRey really send out ripples across the land?      Attachments:  

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Land Ripples

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Not alien crop circles.      Attachments:  

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Almost Alien

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    This is all there was to this meager harvest.      Attachments:  

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Lone Bale

    
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    “Break right! Dust Devil! Twelve o’clock low!”<br /><br />Wonder what it would be like to run into one?<br />      Attachments:  

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Dusty Devils

    
  
Don Maxwell - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    It might be fun, Dan, although your air filters might need cleaning a few minutes sooner. A dust devil once whirled right past me on the ground and dusted a guy's chili dog, then moved a few yards away and lifted a food vendor's tent canopy. Here's a video of it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMRFxbzEbBE&list=UUUZxvBxevBs9vms_0QlBRqg&index=29&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMRFxbzEbBE&list=UUUZxvBxevBs<br>9vms_0QlBRqg&index=29&feature=plcp</a>     
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Well caught, Don! While that was impressive, I've noticed some difference in scale for dust devils. Later while working in the hangar, the moans and groans of the metal under the strong West Texas wind turned to shrieks as one of these devils blew by. I thought the roof would come off!     
  
Don Maxwell - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Scale is important, all right. Not sure what the distinction is between dust devil and tornado--and hurricane--except the the sky has been clear every time I've seen a dust devil.     
  
Kenneth Leonard - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    I experienced dust devils in Balad that required a C-17 go-around. 100' wide at the base and hundreds of feet high. Had smaller ones chase us around on foot and one actually passed through my pickup windows.     
  
Russ Garner - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    Oh ya, dust devils. If you're an hang glider guy like me you look for those mini tornado's caused by a large thermal braking away from the surface. Somewhere a couple of thousand feet up in that column of rising hot air it starts to smooth out and you could find enough lift to take you thousands of feet up.     
  
Dan Nickens - May 08,2012   Viewers  | Reply
    The ASOS said “wind 24 at 17 gusting to 29.” Fortunately there was a wide runway 22. The SeaReys were safely tucked away in what was home to the biggest Bellanca dealer (“sold 85% of the airplanes sold in the U.S.” according to local sources). Out of business now. It was good to be inside with the dust devils rampaging outside.      Attachments:  

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Home with History

    


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