we keep thinking 'tumbleweed' but thats not the word we're after" anyone know??
2007-01-17 00:45:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
its definitely not dust devils that we were thinking of..... 'merry weather' keeps springing into my mind but its not that! and the word 'drift'........ arghhhh!!
2007-01-17 01:10:29 · update #1
THEY ARE CALLED DUST DEVILS. SOME PEOPLE CALL THEM DIRT DEVILS, BUT I THINK THAT TERM ARRIVED WHEN THE OKLAHOMA DIRT BOWLS WERE SO BAD DURING THE DROUGHT THEY HAD BACK IN THE 40'S (?) ALBEIT NOT QUITE AS BAD AS THEN, I CALL THEM (AND WHERE I'M FROM ---FARMING COMMUNITY) PEOPLE CALL THEM DUST DEVILS
2007-01-17 01:54:17 · answer #1 · answered by sweetbabykitty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dust devils or whirlwinds. But I read a short story that had one called Kitten. Originally published in 1948 in Weird Tales, Robert A Heinlein wrote "Our Fair City." It has since been reprinted in a collection of his "6 x H." Also, check out Wikipedia.org on the subject. They have a little video of some on Mars.
2007-01-17 03:47:38 · answer #2 · answered by harley2ms 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dust devils
2007-01-17 00:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by crossbones668 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dust devils...kind of like mini tornadoes. I saw several while living in Las Vegas.
2007-01-17 00:52:35 · answer #4 · answered by Enchanted 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dust devils?
2007-01-17 00:49:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guarantee that they are called dust devils. Check this web page and you will see.
2007-01-17 01:48:34 · answer #6 · answered by protruckdriver71 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Errrrrrrr Mini Whirlwinds springs to mind!!
2007-01-17 00:55:07 · answer #7 · answered by Tiger Tantric 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
way up here in Saskatchewan we call them dust devils
2007-01-17 01:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by pbear i 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whirlwind or dust whirl?
2007-01-17 01:51:55 · answer #9 · answered by Justin H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
little dust devils
2007-01-17 00:55:24 · answer #10 · answered by Texas T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋