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Crazy Dust Devil Interrupts Softball Game

One minute you're playing softball, the next minute you're getting exfoliated by a crazy weather phenomenon.

This video cames to us from a college softball game in Lynchburg, Virginia over the weekend, where a tornado-like weather phenomenon dropped down in the middle of the infield. Dust devils are similar to tornados, but generally not as violent, and they usually form on warm, sunny days in dusty areas. Which means that, somehow, a softball game on a pleasant weekend day made for the perfect storm.

When the dust devil formed, the umpire immediately stopped play between the Lynchburg Hornets and the Bridgewater Eagles, but there was little else to do but just sort of hang out on the field, close your eyes and mouth, and hope you didn't get sucked up the tube. After wandering around aimlessly in the infield for a bit, the dust devil just up and disappeared, not unlike A.J. Pierzynski trying to run on Bartolo Colon.

[WaPo]