this is incredible. that s the park we were just looking at. it kind of hits just like this huge wall of wind and you re also getting sand blasted at the same time. dust and sand swirling around you and getting in your teeth and getting in 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. i can t even see. if you can see me 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 envelopes you. blaine finally makes out the faint red lights of cars paralyzed when the massive haboob extinguished the street lights.
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. 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 machine 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.
can. as soon as i got to the nearest intersection, i saw it coming. while phoenix residents typically see haboobs several times a year, this one was special. it was extensive in both how big it was, it stretched for more than 90 miles. how tall it was, 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 massive cloud shown here in 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 storms begins to swallow up south phoenix. watch how fast it s coming.
instant. when it rolled in, it immediately went pitch black. you candidate see your hand in front of your face. this is incredible. that s the park we were just looking at. it kind of hits just like this huge wall of wind and you re also getting sand blasted that same time. dust and sand swirling around you and getting in your teeth and getting in 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
storm as a perfect photo op. 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. this one is 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 o yeah. blaine watches in awe as the