Dust devils in Texas

As they say, "Everything is bigger in Texas".  This is a pic from my crappy point and shoot camera of a dust devil about 1000 metres north of our tie-down - just south of the grid.  Note the self-launch on the taxiway that the dust devil just cleared!  A tornado-like inner core shot up from the ground in the centre of the dust devil - you couldn't see through the centre. You can just see the aftermath - I wasn't quick enough to get the start, it lasted about a second.
This was around 1250 - just as 15 m and Open launches were almost complete.

I lived in Colorado - but this one was one of the biggest and probably the most powerful I've seen.

Big 'un!

We figure the fleet will be back around 7 CDT (8 Eastern).  Tonight's the US Team-hosted party, and we reckon that post-flight blogging will follow that - perhaps, with luck, a bit incoherent!  We're told there will be pinatas and two-stepping... hopefully, not simultaneously!

We think the late starters are going to be at a disadvantage today.  Time will tell...

DD