it s this rusty, brown color that envelops you. blaine finally makes out the faint red lights of cars paralyzed when the massive haboob extinguished the street lights. everybody esseems to be hiding out, too. getting crazy. this sudden darkness is the most perilous aspect of the storm, one that can result in deadly accidents on the road. the primary danger that these people are going to experience is the rapid loss of this ability, particularly if you re in any kind of a vehicle, like car, a plane, what have you. you run the risk of crashing that vehicle because you simply cannot see what is in front of you. and this large, dense haboob spares no square inch of ground in its path. this time lapse by photographer michael binski shows a different angle. from this spot near the heart of the city, you can see the storm roll right over the phoenix skyline, including a busy i-10
south phoenix. watch how fast it s coming. watch it engulf that light right here. so yeah. should be here in, oh, probably less than four minutes. that s my guess. over here we got people playing softball. don t even know it s about to hit them. warnings have gone out on tv and radio, but many phoenix residents remain unaware of the approaching behemoth. you could literally see airplanes trying to get out of the storm s path. the colossal cloud moves with surprising speed and within 2 1/2 minutes the edge of the storm reaches blaine s location in tempe. here it comes. it rolled in way quicker than i thought it was going to. day turns to night in an instant. when it rolled in, it
it s this rusty brown color that envelops you. blaine finally makes out the faint red lights of cars paralyzed when the massive haboob extinguished the street lights. everybody else seems to be hiding out too. crazy. this sudden darkness is the most perilous aspect of the storm. one that can result in deadly accidents on the road. the primary danger that these people are going to experience is the rapid loss of this ability, particularly if you re in any kind of a vehicle, like car, a plane, what have you. you run the risk of crashing that vehicle because you simply cannot see what is in front of you. and this large, dense haboob spares no square inch of ground in its path. this time lapse by photographer michael binski shows a different angle. from this spot near the heart of the city, you can see the storm roll right over the phoenix skyline, including a busy i-10 in the foreground.
videographer blain sees this storm as a perfect photo op. i get a phone call. get your camera. i don t care what you re doing right now. get out to the nearest hill you can. as soon as i got to the nearest intersection, i saw it coming. while phoenix residents see them several times a year, this one was special. it was extensive in both how big it was. it stretched for more than 90 miles. it was more than a mile high, according to some reports, but it was an incredibly dense storm. it was like a wall of dust, actually, enveloping you. blaine is seven miles away on an overlook and the time lapse takes up almost his whole entire field of vision. as soon as i get up the hill, i m out of breath. i got my tripod and i took a step back to see the scale of this thing. look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. blaine watches in awe as the gargantuan storm swallows up
you couldn t see your hand in front of your face. this is incredible. it kind of hits like just a huge wall of wind but you are also setting sandblasted at the same time. dust and sand flowing around you. getting in your teeth and your eyes. you can barely hold your eyes open. i think we got the shot and live to shoot another day. my next thing was trying to get to safety and get to lower ground. but the task proves impossible. blaine can t find his car. it really becomes black as night. you get a sense that kind of the end of the world because it is a rusty brown color this envelopes you. blaine finally makes out the