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AZ DUST STORM 7-5-2011

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AZ DUST STORM 7-5-2011

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  1. The windstorm that took Valley residents by surprise Tuesday around sunset was a rare monster that reached theatrical proportions. It spawned a 100-150 mile plume of dust more than 5000 feet high, moving at 50-60- mph from NW Tucson along Interstate 10 throughout the Valley before petering out in Yavapai County. These pictures were copied from the Web site of the Az. Rep. AZ DUST STORM 7-5-2011

  2. Semi on Interstate 10 with approaching storm

  3. This is what it looks like heading into the storm. This dust cloud was four times the height of the Empire State Building!

  4. Visibility zero for driving on I-10

  5. Massive dust cloud crossing dirt fields, picking up even more dust as it approaches.

  6. Moving ever forward obliterating everything in its path

  7. Dwarfing cars on highway in distance

  8. Sweeping into a residential area

  9. Mesa

  10. Gilbert

  11. This is what homeowners had to clean up out of their swimming pools the next day!

  12. City of Maricopa

  13. East Mesa

  14. Rolling into Paradise Valley

  15. Approaching downtown Phoenix

  16. Downtown Phoenix

  17. Dwarfing Phoenix skyscrapers

  18. About to swallow the Phoenician Resort

  19. View from plane shows immensity of this storm

  20. The haboob of 7-5-2011

  21. 8-19-1999

  22. Not angry looking like the one 7-5-2011

  23. s I was to experience a dust storm first hand on 8-27-1988. Taken at 1.30 PM. Storm coming in from the Northeast RAPIDLY.

  24. 1.31 PM

  25. 1.32 PM and moving fast

  26. Scooted indoors for the rest of the pictures! 1.34 PM. No longer could see house in back of me!

  27. 1.36 PM Can barely make out my citrus trees. Can smell the dust coming in from under patio doors, and entrance door.

  28. Looking out front window. Can't see cul-de-sac or the six houses in it! Smell of dust everywhere.

  29. Mother Nature can be violent and destructive at times, but she can also be beautiful. Storm of 8-17-2000 took down this series of light poles. And the lovely sunrise was taken on 12-16-2010 at Viewpoint Lake, in Sun City.

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