Giant dust storm swallows Phoenix
 

Wow, that was an incredible dust storm ... 5,000 ft high wall (literally) of dust, up to 50 miles wide, winds to 60 mph. Airport shut down for an hour, trees toppled, dust covering everything. Our swimming pool looks like a peat bog this morning.

Check this video:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stor...st-storm_n.htm

This is why resort rooms that go for $400 in March are on sale for $99 in the Phoenix summer. Come on down!

Great photos of this storm from the LA Times

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/07...ix-dust-storm/

Wow! Thanks for the links.

Unbelievable shots. Hopefully you'll get a big monsoon storm to wash the dust away.

Check out this video of someone driving directly into the sand storm. Pitch black inside.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=178_1309927981

That's amazing. And stupid. The smart ones were pulled off on the side of the road.

The only thing I can think of dumber than driving into that sandstorm is taking pictures of driving in it and posting them on the internet to show everyone how stupid you are.

Haboob? A new word for me.

Amazing video and yuk.

Wow just wow. That is amazing stuff!!!

I always call them a 'Liz Haboob' - named after a similarly named news reporter who had a stormy career in Phoenix.

I don't remember seeing dust storms like this when I was a kid, but I imagine it was just because there weren't cameras everywhere to record them.

<b>I always call them a 'Liz Haboob' - named after a similarly named news reporter who had a stormy career in Phoenix.</b>

Good one! I remember her and a Google search shows she's now working for a station in LA under the nom de guerre Liz Habib.

<b>I don't remember seeing dust storms like this when I was a kid</b>

Seems like we get 3-5 of these each monsoon season now, though this one is apparently the worst for dust in some time. So much mud fell from the sky that after 24 hours and 3 backwashes I can now barely begin to see the bottom of my pool.

Another moderately big haboob last night (July 18th), almost two weeks after the Mother of all Dust Storms ... only 3,000 ft high, winds of 25-30 mph and, best of all, only a fraction of dirt in the pool from this storm compared to the big mother two weeks ago.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/2011...terstitialskip