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Old 11-26-2009, 09:12 AM
 
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I live in Phoenix.. CAN'T stand the dust. It's impossible to keep up with.. Anyways, I'm thinking about moving to Denver. Some one on another thread mentioned Denver is dusty... I didn't notice dust on my recent trip to Denver.. Then again, I was in downtown the whole entire time. Can someone please elaborate?



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Old 11-26-2009, 12:17 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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I live in Phoenix.. CAN'T stand the dust. It's impossible to keep up with.. Anyways, I'm thinking about moving to Denver. Some one on another thread mentioned Denver is dusty... I didn't notice dust on my recent trip to Denver.. Then again, I was in downtown the whole entire time. Can someone please elaborate?



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It doesn't seem especially dusty to me. I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about indoors or outdoors?
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Old 11-26-2009, 12:47 PM
 
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It doesn't seem especially dusty to me. I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about indoors or outdoors?

Both. Here in Phoenix everything is dusty.. I thought moving out here my car would always been clean.. Boy was I wrong.. It's always always always covered in dust. It reminds me of how salty cars can get after the trucks dump snow on the road during snow storms..

Windy days out here are a drag... With the wind, comes a brown cloud of dust. When its really bad, you can't even go outside because its like a sand storm.. Little particles keep hitting you in the eyes, its hard to see.. And its hard to breath.


The smell of the dust out here does a number on me.. After it rains.. all you can smell is dust.. I'm not sure why, but that smell makes me cough..

I take it that you guys dont get dirt devils??? Looks like a tornado of dust.. sometimes they get pretty damn big around here..

With all that dust kicking around outside, it automaticly gets in the house.. We dust everyday, and still can't keep up with it..

Baised on your post, I assume the dust isn't nearly as bad in Denver, as it is in Phoenix!
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Old 11-26-2009, 02:00 PM
 
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I've had the miserable experience of living in Phoenix for a year... all the mountain and mid-west states are dusty to some extent, but Phoenix (and AZ in general, I had to live in N AZ for a couple years too) takes the cake as far as I'm concerned. The dust up here does NOT completely cake up the windows/sills but it still coats the cars after a couple weeks. There's certainly never a noticeable film of silt on wood/vinyl floors like in AZ.

It's not like back east (I spent 4 years in DC and another 5 in Atlanta) where the moisture levels keep the dust down to a minimum, but it's multiple factors better than what you're dealing with right now in Denver.

No dust devils in town, but you'll see them around.
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Old 11-26-2009, 02:31 PM
 
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I live in Phoenix.. CAN'T stand the dust. It's impossible to keep up with.. Anyways, I'm thinking about moving to Denver. Some one on another thread mentioned Denver is dusty... I didn't notice dust on my recent trip to Denver.. Then again, I was in downtown the whole entire time. Can someone please elaborate?



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Denver is no better when it comes to dust and pollution. We experience the same issues. From November 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007, the Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) issues daily air pollution advisories for the 7 county Denver metropolitan area.

Denver's Winter Air Quality Program

Denver is known for the BROWN CLOUD: http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/Jpegs/10647.jpg

Just like Phoenix, it gets worse in the wintertime. If you want a city with low dust and low pollution, you need to move to Portland, Oregon.

What I can't stand is the smell and pollution that billows from all those factories in Commerce City and off of the I-25 corridor. It smells BAD.
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Old 11-26-2009, 08:49 PM
 
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I do feel like the dust accumulates fast here. I don't know if it really does or if I'm imagining it. It is more windy here than what I was used to. Maybe that is it.
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Old 11-26-2009, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Denver 'burbs
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This wasn't a particularly dry year all the way around. Typically, I do find it more dusty than other places I've lived but not awful.
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Old 11-26-2009, 11:21 PM
 
Location: RSM
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Denver is dry and wind blows off the mtns, so you can expect dust, but I don't think anywhere near Phoenix proportions
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Old 11-27-2009, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Arvada, CO
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What dust?
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