There's a dust storm sweeping through Phoenix...

[Bignate603]

That's through our sliding glass door. My neighbors' houses and the mountains are hiding somewhere in there... I'm sure some better photographers around here could have done better with a low light shot but I'm happy I was able to get anything at all!

 

[Bateluer]

This better clear up before I leave work tonight, need to get a run in.

 

[Bignate603]

This better clear up before I leave work tonight, need to get a run in.

I'm hoping for some rain. We need it and it would clear all this crap out of the air. Just breathing inside my house is making my lungs and nose irritated.

 

[Nox51]

That's actually a really nice photo. I like it.

 

[zanejohnson]

darude - sandstorm

 

[Bignate603]

That's actually a really nice photo. I like it.

Thanks

I messed around with exposure times and iso settings until I got something that seemed to work.

If you look near the center of the photo you can actually see the two little lights from my camera. I guess that reflected back off the glass.

For anyone else interested, here's a link to a local news website with a video of the storm rolling in, taken from a helicopter. It's crazy to watch.

Wave of dust rolling in

 

[Nobuo]

They're called haboobs.

That's right: Haboobs.

 

[DAGTA]

pool will be a mess tomorrow

 

[Bignate603]

pool will be a mess tomorrow

Don't remind me... I just gave it a good cleaning yesterday.

 

[El Guaraguao]

darude - sandstorm

:thumbsup:

 

[TechAZ]

My pool was clean this morning....I just got home from work and it is black. My whole backyard looks like Tatooine.

 

[Bignate603]

My pool was clean this morning....I just got home from work and it is black. My whole backyard looks like Tatooine.

<Obi-Wan> I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "But I just cleaned out the pool yesterday!!!". I fear something terrible has happened. </Obi-Wan>

 

[TechAZ]

<Obi-Wan> I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "But I just cleaned out the pool yesterday!!!". I fear something terrible has happened. </Obi-Wan>

lol, well done.

 

[Redfraggle]

<Obi-Wan> I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out &quot;But I just cleaned out the pool yesterday!!!&quot;. I fear something terrible has happened. </Obi-Wan>

lol! My mom is out there. She's probably glad she doesn't have much of a yard right now. HOA will probably clean up everything for them.

 

[Bignate603]

This settles it, my next car is going to be painted beige.

The van was inside the carport, the cherokee was outside.

 

[BoomerD]

I saw that on tonight's news...freaky shit. That's something you expect to see in a story about the middle east...not Arizona.

 

[BladeVenom]

The videos of it blowing in are amazing.

 

[midnight growler]

I lived in Phoenix for 6 years as a kid, dust storms are a pretty unique facet of living there to say the least.

 

[Raizinman]

Looks like a godly plague to me. Perhaps we can change Passover to now have 11 plagues.

 

[Bignate603]

Yeah, it will take a while to for the cleaner to clean up all the dust...

 

[SketchMaster]

I used to think sand storms were nothing big.

...Then I had to walk around in one.

 

[JS80]

Looks like a CGI Armageddon scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W4Cx44XKZ4

 

[Redfraggle]

Yeah, it will take a while to for the cleaner to clean up all the dust...

Wow, that looks like a natural body of water, not a pool. Yuk.

 

[Bignate603]

Wow, that looks like a natural body of water, not a pool. Yuk.

It looks quite a bit better now, it's not completely clean yet but the cleaner got most of it. In a day or two it should be back to normal.

 

[CZroe]

darude - sandstorm

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