benos Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 In the 33 years I've live in AZ, this one was the king: http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/time-lapse-amazing-phoenix-dust-storm-21209 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Smith Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 That looks like a special effects movie! I saw a few really big dust storms in Texas but this dwarfs them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s_gorilla45 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 My wife had never experienced one and kept opening the door to look out at it! I guess she likes to dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenDot Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Yeah, it rearranged my backyard pretty good. Tore the roof off my Gazebo (glad I had the frame bolted to the cement). Tore a few tiles off my roof, one flew into the a/c unit housing . Did a great job on changing the color of my car to brown and also reloacted a tree for me which I have to deal with after work... 75mph winds will do stuff like this. Pretty cool to watch, sucks to clean up after.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenDot Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Brian, don't know if you caught ch 12 news last night while the wall pushed through the valley... but the news anchor on 12 just kept saying Ha-BOOB like 40 times...with more emphasis on the BOOB part while checking out the rack on the blonde anchor....cracked me up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 Brian, don't know if you caught ch 12 news last night while the wall pushed through the valley... but the news anchor on 12 just kept saying Ha-BOOB like 40 times...with more emphasis on the BOOB part while checking out the rack on the blonde anchor....cracked me up!! I missed that - but I do love the word haBOOB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flatland Shooter Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 I didn't think I'd ever see anything top some of those big dust storms we had in West Texas, but that one is flat out scary. Hope its the last for quite some time. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singlestack Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Brian, don't know if you caught ch 12 news last night while the wall pushed through the valley... but the news anchor on 12 just kept saying Ha-BOOB like 40 times...with more emphasis on the BOOB part while checking out the rack on the blonde anchor....cracked me up!! I missed that - but I do love the word haBOOB! I have never heard of the word "haBOOB" before so, you can imagine my hesitation after reading the thread title... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Yeh, I thought it was a Humor Forum item that had been, uh, misplaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R-Bros_JLR Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 I have never heard of the word "haBOOB" before so, you can imagine my hesitation after reading the thread title... Hesitation?????....Anything with 'BOOB' in the title must be checked out immediately! I have to say, that's one of the most gnarly looking things I've ever seen. So a question for all you that witnessed it, how much notice did you have to seek some cover and how long did it last? I've never been in a dust storm so I'm curious as to how it all went down. Definitely looks like something straight out of the movies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powder Finger Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I have never heard of the word "haBOOB" before so, you can imagine my hesitation after reading the thread title... Hesitation?????....Anything with 'BOOB' in the title must be checked out immediately! I have to say, that's one of the most gnarly looking things I've ever seen. So a question for all you that witnessed it, how much notice did you have to seek some cover and how long did it last? I've never been in a dust storm so I'm curious as to how it all went down. Definitely looks like something straight out of the movies!! those who have lived here very long would have known it was coming for about 4 hours. Probably didn't know it would be that large. 2 separate thunder storms started moving from Tucson toward Phoenix in the afternoon, then they merged into 1. Out here when thunderstorms that big fall apart they send a huge outflow for miles. As far as local news notification that's hard to say I didn't watch as most are pretty clueless. BTW I've been here of and on since 1967 and I don't remember one this big that made a direct hit on the cities. Heck there still dust in the air today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singlestack Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I have never heard of the word "haBOOB" before so, you can imagine my hesitation after reading the thread title... Hesitation?????....Anything with 'BOOB' in the title must be checked out immediately! I have to say, that's one of the most gnarly looking things I've ever seen. So a question for all you that witnessed it, how much notice did you have to seek some cover and how long did it last? I've never been in a dust storm so I'm curious as to how it all went down. Definitely looks like something straight out of the movies!! When it is combined with "freak of nature" I am not in so much of a hurry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 You all are famous, it made the news here in Cincinnati! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineshootah Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 You all are famous, it made the news here in Cincinnati! I should post the footage of my backyard during the storm. For a Northern transplant, it was the equivalent of heck of a coastal storm with a ton of sandy colored fog.. that tasted really bad. Made cleaning the pool that much harder with all the palm fronds tossed in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIIID Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Of all the years I lived in Phx, I never saw a dust storm of this size. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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