a nasty Nevada storm …

bad skies over badlands …

… in Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

approaching storm …

… over Wilkins, Nevada, my ancestral homeland.

still a desert …

… despite a storm over the Nevada outback.

where there’s wind …

… there are windmills … in this case, in southern Wyoming.

another day in the desert …

… watching a storm in western Utah.

virga …

 

… descending from an early-evening storm over the House Range in the desert of western Utah.

storm ahead …

… on Robinson Summit (7,559 feet) in eastern Nevada along Route 50.

storm in the Nevada outback …

… and a half hour later, I saw the tornado.

the outback …

… of northern Nevada — a hundred miles of dirt road south of Elko.

rising …

… a gathering storm along Route 93 south of Wells, Nevada.

a hard day’s drive …

… to the mountains off Route 395 in south-central Oregon.

the middle of nowhere …

… along old Route 228  in north-central Nevada south of Elko.

uh oh …

… a thunderstorm along Route 50 by Lake Sevier in western Utah.

storm …

… along Route 50 in Nevada, east of Austin.

a bit of bad weather …

… along Route 50 west of Ely, Nevada.

encroachment …

A storm moves into Castle Valley near Moab, Utah.

dawn …

… after an ice storm near my house.

a bit icy …

… in Missouri on my recent road trip. I drove 400 miles through this shit …

the risks of littering …

In Wyoming, the state fines you for littering … and then sends a storm after you.

desert rain …

… over Route 50 in Nevada, oft-billed as “the loneliest road in America.”