Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
sand storm, TQ
i didn't have much time to get it right, but this gives you an idea of how it sweeps across the horizon and swallows everything up. this wall was probably 3/4 of a mile away.
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by Mike Runge
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I had gotten an email from a friend with photos of a sandstorm in Iraq. They were so unbelievable that people were suspicious that someone had faked them in PhotoShop. This 'urban legend' site says they are real and shows the photos:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandstorm.asp
--Marvin (2005.05.04) |
It looks like pictures I've seen in the past of the Oklahoma dust bowl:
http://www.ptsi.net/user/museum/dustbowl.html
--Vincent (2005.05.04) |
I wasn't around for the dust bowl, but I have seen a good many of these things roll into Oklahoma, especially in the 50s and 60s, air coming at us filled with bits of Kansas or Texas. I certainly have no problem believing in sandstorms and dust storms and storms made up of anything the wind can pick up.
--NJB (2005.05.10) |
Mike had put a comment on here after mine, saying that the timing and locations showed that the storm Mike saw was the same one in the link I sent. I saw his comment - and now it's gone. What happened?
Hey, now I have to prove I'm human?! Not only that, but I have to prove that I made it through Norman Public Schools... Nine plus Five - oops, I mean Five plus Nine. Let's see, carry the one, yep. It's fourteen.
--Marvin (2005.05.10) |
I was afraid something got lost. There was a database crash at the ISP, and my backup was about 24 hours old. I think I actually write comments to a file, as well. I'll see if I can dig up anything missing.
I've been getting a bit of comment spam, hence the math quiz.
--Vincent (2005.05.10) |
these pictures might be from the same storm, the site said they were taken at Al Asad, which is west of us. if the storm was traveling east at 60 mph, it would have reached us just after sunset.
--mike (2005.05.10) |
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