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Inside an Arizona dust storm - pictures

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This monstrous dust storm was just about to hit when I was leaving work. I about crapped my pants when I saw it. So you can see the dust storm coming in and then when it engulfs me on a highway as I'm driving home. Most of the pictures were taken when I was just sitting on the highway because no one would drive through it.

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Don't worry, he's headed north out of town. :p
 
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This dust storm hit on Friday evening about 6:20pm when I was at work by myself. I work with a partner on the weekends, so I told my partner about this dust storm on Saturday morning when I saw her. At about 5:50 on Saturday evening, she spotted another huge dust storm forming just like the one in the pictures and we bolted from work just before another one hit yesterday. I was going 85 on that same highway trying to stay ahead of that dust storm and barely made it through.

Gotta love the monsoons. My car is red and it looked like it got sandblasted brown when I got home on Friday. On Saturday, when I turned on the AC, I turned off the recirculation button and all kinds of dust blew in my face. Not cool.
 
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Shit. I feel for ya man. It's gonna take at least six or seven garden hoses to recover from this disaster. Keep your head up...even in the tough times, like when you get your water bill. Just remember that your family survived, and that's what's important.
 
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BUCKYLE;1500694; said:
Shit. I feel for ya man. It's gonna take at least six or seven garden hoses to recover from this disaster. Keep your head up...even in the tough times, like when you get your water bill. Just remember that your family survived, and that's what's important.
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I left my car on the driveway last night instead of putting it in the garage because I was hoping it would rain and wash all the dirt off. It's Arizona and of course it didn't rain, but it sprinkled just enough to smear the dirt around. I don't get another day off until Thursday, so the car will have to be dirty until then. Then I'm sure we'll get another dust storm on Friday and ruin in. Atleast it's only about 113 today.
 
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OSUsushichic;1500726; said:
I didn't experience a really bad one, but a friend of mine got caught on her bike near the Rio Salado one day. She was a mess.
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To experience the really bad ones, you have to be out in the desert. I work out in the city of Maricopa which is a small city 16 miles south of Phoenix surrounded by miles of desert and so there is nothing to block the dirt coming in. That highway I was on runs through the Gila River Indian Reservation and so it's just out in the middle of the desert. Once the dust storm gets to Phoenix or Tempe, it's still nasty, but it gets slowed down by all the buildings and lack of extra dirt to pick up and blow around. I've lived in Arizona since I was 4 years old and I've never seen them like I do out here in Maricopa.

Here's a pic of the highway I was on. As you can see, nothing but dirt on both sides for miles. That's why it gets so bad.

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Buckeneye;1500747; said:
So, Casa Grande I assume?

The first pic, those houses are right off of I-10 right?
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Those houses are in the city of Maricopa. The dust storms I believe develop around the Casa Grande area and blow to the north-west. They usually don't get as far north as Phoenix because they get blown west before they can get that far north.
 
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reagdog said:
I left my car on the driveway last night instead of putting it in the garage because I was hoping it would rain and wash all the dirt off. It's Arizona and of course it didn't rain, but it sprinkled just enough to smear the dirt around. I don't get another day off until Thursday, so the car will have to be dirty until then. Then I'm sure we'll get another dust storm on Friday and ruin in. Atleast it's only about 113 today.
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Link works for me.
Arizona isn't the only state hit by massive dust storms. If your traveling
I-40 across New Mexico your chances of hitting a dust storm are pretty good. I-40 gets closed all too often by dust storms and brush fires.

Albuquerque dust storm
 
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