reaches the highway, he makes a mad dash for safety. >> when the dust storm hit, i had jumped in my car and it was instantaneous blackout. i'd never been in a dust storm that turned the lights off that fast before. >> incredibly, the historic haboob on july 5th rolls through the city without a single death reported. the doctor credits phoenix residents for observing proper haboob protocol. >> it might have been due to the warning that the national weather service was able to put out about this. but one of the really nice things about this particular storm was there were very few injuries that were associated with it. people were able to do the things that they were supposed to do, pull off to the side of the road, turn their lights off, and take their feet off the brake. >> the city doesn't escape completely unscathed. the dense storm leaves thousands without electricity after blowing down multiple power poles. >> the power just went out. >> for millions of others, the storm is a nuisance, but nothing more.