AZ DUST STORM 7-5-2011

AZ DUST STORM 7-5-2011 The windstorm that took Valley residents by surprise Tuesday around sunset was a

rare monster that reached theatrical proportions. It spawned a 100-150 mile

plume of dust more than 5000 feet high, moving at 50-60- mph from NW Tucson

along Interstate 10 throughout the Valley before petering out in Yavapai County.

These pictures were copied from the Web site of the Az. Rep.

Semi on Interstate 10 with approaching storm

This is what it looks like heading into the storm. This dust cloud was four times the height of the Empire State Building!

Visibility zero for driving on I-10

Massive dust cloud crossing dirt fields, picking upeven more dust as it approaches.

Moving ever forward obliterating everything in its path

Dwarfing cars on highway in distance

Sweeping into a residential area

Mesa

Gilbert

This is what homeowners had to clean up outof their swimming pools the next day!

City of Maricopa

East Mesa

Rolling into Paradise Valley

Approaching downtown Phoenix

Downtown Phoenix

Dwarfing Phoenix skyscrapers

About to swallow the Phoenician Resort

View from plane shows immensity of this storm

The haboob of 7-5-2011

8-19-1999

Not angry looking like the one 7-5-2011

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I was to experience a dust storm first hand on 8-27-1988. Taken at 1.30 PM. Storm coming in

from the Northeast RAPIDLY.

1.31 PM

1.32 PM and moving fast

Scooted indoors for the rest of the pictures! 1.34 PM.No longer could see house in back of me!

1.36 PM Can barely make out my citrus trees. Can smell the dust coming in from under patio doors, and entrance door.

Looking out front window. Can't see cul-de-sac or the six houses in it! Smell of dust everywhere.

Mother Nature can be violent and destructive at times, but she can also be beautiful. Storm of 8-17-2000 took down this series of light poles.

And the lovely sunrise was taken on 12-16-2010 at Viewpoint Lake, in Sun City.