Dust Devils in Texas--a weather phenomenon

I grew up on the border in TX. We had them ALL the time. The worst was being a kid on the playground, they'd come through and you'd get sandblasted.

I see them often during harvest. Especially the hot dry days in September. Some are tiny, some are huge! Usually full of dust and corn leaves. Once in a while it goes right on me, and that is nasty. I can usually move my truck if I feel like it is going to go right into me.

We are having an exceptionally wet summer here. I am more concerned about how often I am going to need to be pulled out of the field, due to mud, instead of dust devils this year! Nothing says fun like starting out your day with a log chain on the floor of the truck, because "you're probably going to need this today"! I remember one year, in a particularly wet field, I just chained up to a tractor and he drug me through the field alongside the chopper. Not the entire field, but there was some wet holes. We mostly have those tiled out now. I am pretty good at not getting stuck - but when I am stuck, it's stuck good.