I have seen some sandstorms in my day but nothing like this. I hope the photo isn't too large. Massive haboob swallows up Phoenix CNN PRODUCER NOTE Pulling out of a parking lot of a local camera shop in Phoenix, AZ, APizm says he caught a glimpse of the first major Haboob of the season when he saw a bright red, orange and yellow glow on the horizon to the East. Racing up a mountain that was nearby, he skipped the official trail to get a better viewing advantage and was able to capture this Haboob from a very unique angle. "I had made it just in time. You really get a good and scary sense of the size and magnitude of these types of storms. It will be a photograph I will never forget," he says. " I could see cars, skyscrapers and entire mountain ranges getting swallowed up through my viewfinder. Two days later, I was still getting dust out of my ears." continued http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-818051?hpt=hp_bn1
Looks like the ghiblis that often hit us while I was stationed in Libya. For some reason, they always hit just about the time we had finished washing our fire trcks.
Not that unusual in West Texas... esp around Lubbock. I lived there with an aunt & uncle for a year when I was a kid. While I loved the area, grew to understand why the adults hated it. When a duststorm moved thru, the stuff found its way inside your house and covered EVERYTHING with dust. Occasionally, they make it all the way to Dallas and when our sky turns red toward the west, everybody sez, "Watch out, here comes West Texas!"
