storm is a nuisance, but nothing more. i was getting all kinds of comments from other parts of the world that hadn t seen storms like this. people wondering how many people died, wondering if i died. so, i made sure to comment back that me and my gear were okay and that it was a cool experience. phoenix is no stranger to these storms. another haboob two months later leaves a bride and groom in the dust. congratulations. you may kiss the bride. and makes their day to remember beyond unforgettable. but no storm that follows can compare to the july 5th event, the haboob of the decade. and look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. coming up, baseball-size hailstones leave one family with no where to run. it s in my room.
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, b
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 people are going to experience is the rapid loss of visibility, 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 s 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.
i was getting all kinds of comments from other parts of the world that hadn t seen storms like this. people wondering how many people died, wondering if i died. so, i made sure to comment back saying that me and my gear were okay and that it was a cool experience. phoenix is no stranger to these storms. another haboob two months later leaves a bride and groom in the dust. congratulations. you may kiss the bride. and makes their day to remember beyond unforgettable. but no storm that follows can compare to the july 5th event, the haboob of the decade. and look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. coming up, baseball-sized hailstones leave one family with no where to run. it s in my room.
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