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Topic started on 6-7-2011 @ 09:02 AM by DaddyBare

Giant Dust Storm Envelopes Phoenix, Grounds Flights [VIDEO]


www.ibtimes.com
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
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reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:02 AM by DaddyBare

Dust storms are nothing new down there... but this was a huge one... Plane engines would clog up with the dust and choke out, then crash... speaking of crashes out on the highways visibility drops to nothing and auto accidents are quite common... that and given a strong enough wind.... can literally sand blast the paint right off your car!!!

yeah this is yet another... got to live threw one to fully understand the raw power a dust storm has...

youtu.be...

www.ibtimes.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
edit on 6-7-2011 by DaddyBare because: (no reason given)



reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:08 AM by DaddyBare
reply to post by Edews



Well now that you've seen it...
you know know what armageddon will look like


reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:15 AM 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
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reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:24 AM by DaddyBare
reply to post by Soldier of God



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...


reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:24 AM by confreak
reply to post by DaddyBare



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.



reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:25 AM by jude11
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
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I remember reading about that and I also remembered this from a few years ago. It looks like a repeat of the dustbowl.

2007


Only difference is that the depression era events were because of a lack of knowledge in farming and topsoil. Having plowed the entire midwest and not leaving windbreaks etc. And then the lack of rain being the catalyst.


reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:26 AM by Soldier of God
Originally posted by DaddyBare
reply to
post by Soldier of God



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...


Thank you, I'm glad my house is still here. Honestly I was waiting to see the four horsemen ride out of that dust!! It was absolutely as close to apocalyptic as I'd like to get... lol.


reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:28 AM by Starwise
Originally posted by confreak
reply to
post by DaddyBare



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.


Okay hun, Phoenix is in the middle of a desert.......Actually Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Parts of California are.....Its called the Mojave Desert.....google it, you will find all info you need


reply posted on 6-7-2011 @ 09:43 AM by Taupin Desciple
reply to post by Starwise



What makes it even worse in Phoenix, as I'm sure you know, is that the desert is surrounded by mountains, hence the term "VALLEY of the sun".

The wife and I have a running joke of sorts. We live far north of there now, and whenever we have to go down there, about the time we get to the juvy center, we say "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Sonny Barger is with me.

Seriously though, I lived there for 20 years and have seen my share of dust storms, but THAT one takes the cake.



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