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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.
instantaneous blackout. i d never been in a dust storm that turned the light out that fast before. incredibly, the historic haboob on july 5th rolls through the city without a single death reported. dr. surbani credits phoenix residents for observing proper haboob protocol. it might have been due to the warning that the national weather service put out about this. but one of the nice things about this particular storm was there were very few injuries associated with it. people were able to do the things 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. power just went out. for millions of others, the storm is a nuisance, but nothing more. i was getting all kind of comments from other parts of the world that hadn t seen storms like this. people wondering how many people
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 5th, 2011, the combination results in a spectacular phenomenon that fills the sky. the storm spanned from one side of the horizon to the other. this time lapse must be seen to be believed. the storm is called a haboob. an arabic term and it means wind. here in the southwest or across the united states, we tend to just use the word duststorm. the wind from a dying summer thunderstorm kicks up enough dust to produce a dense, massive wall, advancing towards the city. while some take cover, veteran storm chaser and videographer blain sees this storm as a perfect photo op. get your camera, i don t care what you re doing. drop what you re doing right now. get out to the nearest hill you
everybody else seems to be hiding out, too. this is crazy. this sudden darkness is the most paralyze 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 stares 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. but just before the haboob reaches the highway, he makes a mad dash for safety. when the dust storm hit, i had jumped in my car and it was