the same time. dust and sand swirling around you getting in your teeth and your eyes. you could hardly hold your eyes open. well, i think we got the shot and we ll have to shoot another day. my next thing was trying to get to safety. get to lower ground. but the task proves impossible. blaine can t find his car. can t even see. it really becomes black as night. you get a sense that it s kind of the end of the world because 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. 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
how tall it was. it was over a mile high according to some reports. but most importantly it was an incredibly dense storm. it was like a wall of dust actually enveloping you. blaine is seven miles away on an overlap 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. got my tripod and i took a step back to see the scale of this thing. and look at the size of this [ mute ] thing. oh, yeah. blaine watches in awe as the gargantuan with storm swallows up south phoenix. watch how fast it s coming. how fast it is coming. watch it engulf that light right here. should be here in, oh, probably less than four minutes. that s my guess. and 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 immediately went pitch black. you couldn t see your hand in front of your face. this is incredible. that s the park right there we were just looking at. it kind of hits just like this huge wall of wind but you re getting sandblasted at
i get a phone call, get your camera, i don t care what you re doing. get out to the nearest hill you can. as soon as i got to the nearest intersection, i saw it coming. who residents typically seen these 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 overlap and the time lapse takes up almost his whole entire field of vision. 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 begins to swallow up south phoenix. how fast it is coming. watch it engulf that light right here. should be here in, oh, probably less than four minutes. that s my guess. people playing softball, they don t even know what is about to hit them. warnings have gone out on tv and radio, but many phoenix residents remain unaware of the approaching behemoth. the storm was so wide and tall, you can t 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