One of the more strange and random events of 2020 was the summer Sahara dust storm that swept sand clear over the southern states and created a layer of dust as far west as Houston, Texas. Saharan dust storms are, in fact, a seasonally occurring phenomenon. African winds send dust clouds over the Atlantic and into the Gulf every year. This one got nicked-named Godzilla and sent meteorologists scrambling. It would have been easy to miss altogether or mistake for smoke or smog in east Georgia. Nevertheless, I went to the farm before dark, hoping to see an unusual sunset. I took this photo with the first drone I purchased, ironically branded as the ZLRC Beast. It was roughly equivalent to a grizzly bear steering a paraglider or Godzilla take your pick. The gimbal rarely stayed balanced, the movements jerky, the photos crooked, and the video looked like a slow-moving plane crash. Still, it was the first drone I experimented with, and it gave me the confidence to fly a better one.