A massive dust storm rolling through the Phoenix area blocked visibility and created dangerous travel conditions Tuesday evening as the storm rushed across much of the Valley at 30 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm originated near Tucson and reached metro Phoenix around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday closing Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport for over an hour and causing delays.

Radar data showed the storm's towering dust wall had reached as high as 8 to 10K feet

Originally posted by DaddyBare

Originally posted by jude11
Looks like footage back in the depression and dustbowl days.

Wow!

Your closer to being right than you realize...
Link to Lake Mead water levels

Lake Mead is the main reservoir for Phoenix, Los Angeles and Las Vegas as well as producing power out at Hover Dam for much of the southwest.... in the past couple of years that water level has dropped so low as the power generation at the damn has been close to shutting down several times... dropped so much there's talk about not having fresh drinking water to send to LA, talk that Las Vegas might have to be abandoned at a future date....

if you look at the charts the lake is very close to levels not seen since the days of the dustbowl

edit on 6-7-2011 by DaddyBare because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by DaddyBare
reply to post by Soldier of God

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Glad your all alright... damage can be fixed, repaired... As long as you got your health

Probably need to change all the air filters on your A/C too
better check the cars air filters while your at it...

Still things could have been worse right...

Originally posted by confreak
reply to post by DaddyBare

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WOW, hopefully some Alien creatures aren't lurking in there like them sci fi movies

This is pretty amazing, I never knew US had so much dust, does Phoenix have dry parts? I need to learn more about US geography, I know US has desert like terrain but don't know which states.