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| This baboon, I mean haboob, which is a big dust storm, cut power to an Arizona Diamondbacks game Monday. ESPN accidentally reported the problem was cause by a baboon. Damn autocorrect! |
ESPN reporter Pedro Gomez was quick with the explanation in this tweet: "@Rangers and @Dbacks delayed because a baboon went through town and overloaded the grid, knocking some lights out."
That is one powerful ape!
Turns out, as you can imagine, it wasn't a baboon cutting the power in Phoenix, but a haboob, which is one of those raging dust storms that often sweep through Arizona during the summer monsoon season.
The storm was severe. Tens of thousands of people lost power. A palm tree snapped in half and crashed through the roof of a house. Outside of Phoenix, high winds upended a mobile home and flash flooding was reported
And damn autocorrect victimized Gomez.
Haboobs form when strong downdrafts from summer thunderstorms stir up walls of dust that sweep through the desert, and sometimes through cities like Phoenix. They are dangerous, cutting visibiity on roads to next to nothing. People sometimes die in highway crashes in haboobs.
However, autocorrect.
You have to wonder if the mascot for the NBA Phoenix Suns had something to do with this. Their mascot, the Suns Gorilla, said on Twitter he had an alibi, that he was out on a date with Shania Twain.
Yeah, Twitter is a weird place.
Gomez later tweeted that the Diamondbacks should sign this mystery baboom he created. "Looked like he had a power arm," he tweeted.
On my Mac, autocorrect keeps changing "haboob" to "kabob" which sounds like a tasty way to cut electricity to a major city like Pheonix.
I have to wonder what autocorrect has in store for other weather terms that have been in the news lately, like "pyrocumulus" "Bermuda High" "monsoon" and "precipitable water."
Maybe I should experiment.
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