Short essay on A Dust Storm (free to read). Poets and novelists are great masters who can describe different phenomena of nature with great felicity. Dickens describes a storm at York mouth in David Copperfield.
Poets and novelists are great masters who can describe different phenomena of nature with great felicity. Dickens describes a storm at York mouth in David Copperfield. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” is the depiction of the stormy west wind which he himself witnessed in Italy.
I still remember the terrible dust storm which I saw last summer. It was the month of May. The weather was very hot and dry. It was very stuffy with a complete lull in the air. This possibly created a vacuum in the atmosphere. Naturally, wind from all sides rushed to fill this vacuum, as nature absorbs vacuum.
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I was passing through the busy market. I saw the west horizon suddenly growing red. An old man who was trying to walk away hurriedly, said to me, “Son, rush to your house. A dust storm is coming. I did not so much heed to the old man’s advice.
I kept lingering on the road. After a short while, I heard a sudden noise of falling hoardings. Leaves of the trees growing on the road side began to fly away in the air. It appeared there was a whirlwind accompanying the storm. As the earth was dry, dust and sand from the road-side were carried high “p in the air by the strong wind. The atmosphere was covered with a thick layer of dust. Nothing was visible for a few moments, although it was only afternoon.
The dust storm lasted only a few minutes. It turned everything upside down. Wares of some shopkeepers flew away and were lost or broken. The eyes of everybody and everything were covered with a thick layer of dust. Fortunately, after the storm, there was a light rain for a few minutes. It settled the dust and air became clean. Dust storms, rain and other such phenomena are nature’s ways of maintaining balance and harmony in atmosphere.