serious dust storm

[davect01]

Phoenix got hit last night by a serious dust storm. It lasted several hours and made a huge mess even causing power outages.

http://ktar.com/category/photo-gallery/20110705/Dust-Storm^Monsoon/

 

[tanngrisnir3]

Wow. Looks like something out of "Dune". Wonder how the cleanup was (or still is)

 

[davect01]

messy

Wow. Looks like something out of "Dune". Wonder how the cleanup was (or still is)

Took quite a while, it was everywhere. I had to spray down everything, then sweep away.

 

[davect01]

vid

Took quite a while, it was everywhere. I had to spray down everything, then sweep away.

Heres a video someone compiled:

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8W4Cx44XKZ4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[sprocket87]

Wow, craziness.... We don't get anything like that in Ohio

 

[davect01]

not usual

Wow, craziness.... We don't get anything like that in Ohio

Ya we don't usually either.

 

[kyteflyer]

Great shots, nasty stuff. We get dust storms in Australia, quite regularly, but mostly out west. A couple of years ago we had a particularly bad one which covered the entire south of the country from (I think) somewhere around Adelaide all the way to the east coast.

Wear nose and mouth covering when in this kind of stuff. eeek.

 

[Ray Sachs]

WOW! I grew up in Tucson and never saw ANYthing like that! We had dust devils (like tiny tornados of dust, but you could stand in the middle of one and nothing would happen to you other than dust in your eyes) all the time and an occasional dust storm, but nothing that even came close to that monster. Glad you're ok - that would scare the crap out of me!

-Ray

 

[davect01]

eating it

I went out briefly to throw away some trash and swear I was tasting dust and dirt even the next morning.

Amazing the power of Mother Nature.

What's funny tanngrisnir3 is that Dune was on earlier that day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(film)