{"id":171554,"date":"2026-02-19T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:48:09","slug":"blowing-dust-and-gusty-conditions-leave-el-paso-residents-struggling-outdoors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171554\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust and gusty conditions leave El Paso residents struggling outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Strong winds swept through El Paso for a second straight day, kicking up dust that made travel and time outdoors difficult for some people across the city.<\/p>\n<p>In downtown El Paso, people said it did not take long to feel the dust. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel the dust. Like, right now in my mouth. And especially right now that I have my lip gloss on. I feel it on my lips,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n<p><p>Jordan Salas reports on day two of windy conditions (Credit: KFOX14)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/high-winds-return-to-el-paso-for-second-day-signaling-early-start-to-windy-season?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">High winds return to El Paso for second day, signaling early start to windy season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From stepping out of work to running errands, residents said the dust and gusty conditions made even short trips outside uncomfortable. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was horrible. It was a lot of sand everywhere. I couldn\u2019t even go outside,\u201d another person said.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/windy-weather-to-return-tuesday?src=link?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Windy weather to return Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others described the blowing dust as a familiar part of life in the Borderland.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou know, you get a lot of dust in your eyes. But it&#8217;s a it&#8217;s a normal thing here in El Paso,\u201d one person said. \u201cWe just fight through it and try to get to the places that we need to get to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Strong winds swept through El Paso for a second straight day, kicking up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-171554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}