Arizona Dust Storm: Amazing Time-Lapse of Phoenix Haboob

[UnrepentantLiberal]

[Systematic Chaos]

1. You said 'boob'

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[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R. Saw this reported on today's news, sounded quite serious.

Yet another natural disaster for us to be worried about. Thanks so much for posting this, really is an amazing video!

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Amazing video. Are we on the cusp of Dust Bowl II?

[Rhiannon12866]

5. That was my first thought, too.

We had a huge thunderstorm again today. These are scary times...

[madokie]

3. This is exactly how my parents explained how the dust rolled in during the dust bowl days

here in Oklahoma back in the thirties. Right now our grass is only a few more weeks away from being dust. Its long gone past being dead or dry its degenerating into dust as I type. If we don't get some rain soon we're screwn big time.

[jamesatemple]

9. My grandfather made a homestead claim in the New Mexico Territory in 1907, 20 mi. NE of Clayton.

The Great Depression and Dust Bowl storms drove him, broke and broken, from that homestead after 31 years of excruciating labor. My mom, born there in 1919, told me and my brother of the miseries of life during those times, describing the terror of those dust storms in great detail.

I hope that I'm wrong in my observation that we appear to be teetering on both those calamities, dust bowl and depression, again.

[madokie]

16. I'm right with you on that hope.

[fasttense]

6. Even during the first RepubliCON Great Depression, when FDR was president

They did nothing about the dust storms until they got so big they hit DC.

Here's hoping we don't wait that long this time around.

[jerseyjack]

7. When did this happen?

There was a similar video posted about a year ago.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

8. July 2012

There are three videos of dust storms at this link. July 16, 21 and 27.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=arizona+dust+storm+2012&oq=arizona+dust&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.3.0l5.3749.12756.0.17149.14.8.0.6.6.0.221.1406.0j5j3.8.0.chyp%2Ca%3D1%2Cb%3D1000%2Cn%3D5%2Ct%3D2..0.0...1ac.cHvhH2Y-y98

[Sedona]

10. These dust storms have happened every summer

for as long as people here have been keeping track.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob

[greiner3]

13. "These dust storms (happen) every summer...for as long as people here have been keen keeping track."

Yes, but in recent years they have become more severe and happen nearly yearly and multiple times per year. This is caused by the arid conditions in the mid and upper mid west. Drought conditions there leave so much more topsoil exposed to wind erosion giving the 'haboobs' the increasing intensity areas west of the Continental Divide.

In other words, the return of the Dust Bowl.

[NJCher]

11. question to Arizonans

Do you have to clean your house after these storms? Does the sand (?) from the storm get in your house?

[greiner3]

12. Ever spent time at a REAL beach;

I mean one along the Gulf Coast, with the real fine sand? If so, then you know how know matter how much you shower prior to going into your hotel room you track a surprisingly amount of sand into your room. Imagine this but one a scale of several orders of magnitude larger and it settles onto EVERY horizontal surface in your house. It is so much finer, sand vs. dust, so it gets into EVERY body orifice.

These fine particles get into EVERYTHING. There is nothing to do but clean, clean and clean after a storm.

[drmeow]

18. The last two that I was aware of

(i.e., I was at home when they happened) moved through pretty fast and didn't seem to leave a noticeable layer of dust even outside. I didn't notice a layer of dust in the house, either. It could be because my house is pretty well sealed (quite possible - in the last years we've replaced all (but one) windows and doors) or because my threshold for dust is high. You can smell it, though.

On the other hand, I was out of town when one hit a few years ago and that one moved slowly and left a pretty decent layer of dust outside. I don't remember about inside but my house cleaner may have come before I got home.

[greiner3]

14. There;

At the end of the video, just before the visibility is reduced to zero, you can just make out the giant worms that the Fremen are riding led by Paul Muad'Dib just about to breach the walls of the evil empire run by the hated overlord Baroness Brewer. My money is on Paul!

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Holy hell. nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

17. I remember watching one of these roll into Phoenix when I was a kid

from up on Camelback. That must've been mid-70's. The entire valley just disappeared in a couple of minutes.