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
watch how fast it s coming. how it engulf that light. should be here in probably less than four minutes. my guess. and over here we have got people playing softball. 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 bohemith. you could literally see airplanes trying to get out of the storm s path. the colossal cloud moves with surprising speed and within two and a half 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.
storm as a photo op. i get a phone call get out to the nearest hill you can. as soon as i got up to the freeway overpass i saw this coming in. while they typically see haboobs several times a year this one was special. it was ex-tennysonive in how big it was. it stretched for more than 90 miles. how tall it was. over a mile high according to some reports. most incredibly it was an incredibly dense storm. it was like a wall of dust enveloping you. the massive cloud shown here in time lapse takes up almost his entire field of vision. as soon as i get up the hill i m out of brecht. breath. set the tripod recording and step back to see it. look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. blaine watches in awe as the storm begins to swallow up south phoenix.
of legend in this sprawling metropolis of phoenix, arizona. here in the valley of the sun, summer temperatures can exceed 100 degrees for weeks on end. being surrounded by desert only makes things hotter. on july 5, 2011, the combination results in a spectacular phenomenon that fills the sky. the storm spans from one side of the horizon to the other. this time lapse must be seen to be believed. the storm is called a haboob. a haboob is an arabic term and basically just means wind. here in the southwest or across the united states we tend to just use the word dust storm. the wind from a dying summer thunderstorm kicks up enough dust to produce a dense massive wall advancing toward the city. while some take cover, veteran storm chaser and video grapher blaine cory sees this perfect