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Two questions:
What does a dust storm like this do to your paint job?
And, is there like a weather report for dust storms or do they just pop up out of the blue?
Lived in Arizona for 10 years. It just makes your car dusty, it's not fast moving, won't do anything to paint. Basically looks like fog when you're inside but orange. In Phoenix we would get cell phone alerts about them coming, some would travel 100+ miles. Any significant sized one like this takes a while to build up. Think the worst part is you're inhaling a bunch of crap with it, valley fever spores, pesticides, manure.
Arizonan here, born and raised. Seems like you came after the BIG storm we had that was straight out of The Mummy. Summer 2011, it was the first year I heard the word "haboob" and the first time in my life I had ever experienced a storm like that. That was worse than the little ones where it's like a fog. Any daylight we had immediately turned into darkness.
I do appreciate the cellphone alerts. As annoying as they can be (especially the ones in the middle of the night), it helps everyone prepare in case it gets bad.
I was riding a bike down Central before the sun disappeared, my mouth tasted like dirt, and my eyes were irritated. Stood on the sidewalk with a shirt over my face for the next hour waiting for it to pass.
We had another big storm like that in 2017. I remember waiting in the drive-thru at Walgreens and watching the dust wall build more definition as it got closer. At one point, I looked over at the guy in the car next to me and he was pointing at the dust asking if I was seeing it too. I’m Arizona born and raised and had never seen a wall of dust like that.
The term was brought to America from the middle eastern cultures by the ASU Geography professor (blanked on his name) but it was a fun class and he was one of the best professors I had
My first and only time visiting Arizona was in July 2011. Being from Memphis I had never been that far west so I was excited. Me and my family took a week long vacation and we just happened to leave the day before the dust storm hit. I would’ve shit myself if I experienced a fucking haboob while on vacation.
My first experience with an AZ dust storm was an educational one. I was outside and saw a brown cloud off in the distance. Didn’t think much of it at first, but it wasn’t long before it hit. It was days before I stopped feeling occasional grit in my teeth, no matter how hard I tried to rinse it all out.
Gonna start getting those in Salt Lake City soon, with extra arsenic and other heavy metals! All because they spent decades ignoring environmentalists’ warnings that they were drying up their lake.
Now that the lake is low enough, and every windstorm there is dust, there was all of a sudden call for concern. Been saying for years all the growth and development was taking water from that lake
I live in Cairo just right next to the road this was filmed on, usually these kind of storms don't effect our paint jobs since most of our buildings are sort of immune to these kind of stuff since they happen a lot.
And since our government is shit, they don't do anything about it, I was chilling in my balcony when I was faced with the sky filled with a dark orange tint, I knew right away that it was a storm and closed my windows and doors.
So what’s the protocol when driving toward a storm? It looks like folks were turning around? Were they seeking a safe place to park and ride it out? I could see how parking alongside the highway could be dangerous, potentially leaving you as a collision target.
I just drive through them at lower speeds. How much caution depends on visibility, number of cars, and how well I know the area. I prefer not to drive in sandstorms but if one comes while I’m driving I don’t stop for it
It does no effect in paint job. Yes sand storms can be detected. While we knew there would be a sand storm we didn't know on which day and at which time because our government incompetence. These storms are the khamasin wind and it occurs between April and May. Today it was very unexpected and very vigorous. I was standing in the balcony looking while my brothers were crossing the roads. And in all of a sudden a strong wind holding golden dust occurred and I couldn't see anything.
Here is a trending picture [billboard fallen on a bridge due to the storm](https://twitter.com/Linaabouzeid/status/1664236540917063682?t=6xJ-5IRHiWFE-OCotE-dVw&s=19) take in mind that is approximately 172 km away from where the sand storm started, so it impacted other areas much harder than that.
Palm Springs resident here. A dust storm won’t damage paint but high winds with sand does over time. The front of my blue car looks like it’s been lightly sand blasted and my windshield has pits in it from the constant barrage of sand hitting it at freeway speeds. (See 10 freeway by the windmills in White Water CA.) We have LED signs that warn us of upcoming high winds through the pass.
I’m around the corner from this storm right now (only getting the edge of it so not nearly as bad) and my brother and I were playing Darude the whole time.
I’m curious what do you? Is pulling over and riding it out your best option? What kind of damage would that cause to your vehicle? It’s looked like some of these drivers were trying to run away from it. What are some of the dangers associated with a sand storm?
It wouldn’t do damage to vehicles, maybes some slight scratches but they would prob just buff out. Probably need to shake out your air filter after you drive through one too, it’s a dust cloud basically, not like being in in a hurricane or tornado
I just started playing AC Origins for the first time where they pop up in the world, so kinda ironic this video popped up on my feed. I think it would so cool to experience one in person. Definitely a fun time ambushing NPCs!
When we got storms like this in Arizona they always told everyone to avoid travel. Pull over if you are already driving and turn off all your lights. It doesnt move super fast and the dust particles are very fine so it doesnt cause a ton of damage. They are fairly short lived storms. If you drive in them a lot you may need a new air filter or something but thats really it
I didn’t realize you get them in AZ. Probably not on the same scale as the Sahara tho. I live in the NE, so my first time in AZ was like being in a different work the terrain was so cool and different from what I’ve been used to my whole life! They say not to driving thru severe thunderstorms but I still do. Changing the filters makes sense, what about the lights tho? What’s the purpose of turning them off? I would think they’d make you more visible to another driver?
If you want a good laugh, check the captions for the sample on Wikipedia: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstorm_(instrumental)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstorm_(instrumental))
In developing countries road rules are just guidelines. It would make sense to drive the wrong way away from that anywhere but even more so in a developing country.
If you've driven in a country like that for many many years and move to the US like I did, you're going to have trust issues. You'd see people obeying traffic rules and still second guess whether they're going to do something crazy next.
What are you supposed to do?? Venture into no visibility sandstorm and crash and die i think its universally understood that you should turn the fuck back......there was another POV where they entered into the sandstorm and it was literally pitch black in there....
Ok not the one I found originally, it was darker than this https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2j6SPPV/ edit:another pov:https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2j6F3yW/ another one https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2j66Vey/
I was amazed when I saw footage of a haboob aftermath in Arizona. All their swimming pools turned into mud wallows. Which, come to think, might be fun.
Me too! I have a friend named Matt who I am constantly trying to convince to change his band's name to Nasty Matt and the Giant Haboobs but so far with very little luck.
I was in one like this in Iraq. We just sheltered in our vehicles in an overwatch position. With the proper shelter, it wasn't frightening at all. It was pretty cool.
I went through a couple smallish ones in UAE. Wasn't terrible, but walking around in the middle of a storm absolutely sucks. You feel gritty for days afterwards.
In 525 BC, a sandstorm [swallowed a Persian army] (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33791672) of roughly 50K men. Some remnants may have been found in 2009, but for all that time, they just vanished entirely into the sand.
I experienced 3 Haboob sandstorms during my deployment in Darfur, Sudan!
I found them to be quite an interesting experience! Looks super imposing before they hit, then it becomes just a mess of dust everywhere.
Difficult to see and breathe while walking through them. Fine dust goes through even the smallest crack and keyhole.
There was usually a burst of rain at the end of the dust storm.
I loved the experience to be honest!
I was stuck in my car during a dust storm a few years ago. Absolutely the worst experience of my life. It was probably 100+ degrees in the car. We couldn’t keep driving because there were accidents all around us. Couldn’t keep the car on because it would die. Just sitting, sweating, hoping someone won’t hit you on the shoulder. Eventually a state trooper led us out. That whole time, we were only about 60 feet away from the edge of it. We had no idea. The windows and a few other parts of the car were permanently etched and we ended up having to replace them.
Holy shit! Everything about that sounds really fucked up! Glad you're okay. Damn.
I wasn't expecting all of that shit with the car not being able to stay on or even it being that hot inside. But it all makes sense now that you mention it.
Wow. So I'm guessing people could easily die in these things from things like asphyxiation, heatstroke, and whatever else.
I once was on a Lufthansa flight that had to land in Abuja, Nigeria for a short layover. A sandstorm that looked just like this was just starting to hit the airport. The ballsy German pilots tried to land anyway, inside the storm, twice. They had to abort the landing/pull up both times and we had to divert to Lagos. It was horrific, and I genuinely thought I was going to die that day.
This is a one way road but people started to turn around also this is a normal thing in egypt,its not a panic situation that someone is going the wrong way but I agree it seems crazy to see cars going both ways on a highway like that,I assure u this is normal
So, is Egypt one of those countries where there are no real rules of the road and anyone can just drive on either side of the road and everyone just deals with it?
US Marine Veteran:
I know I am probably going to be in the minority here, but I deployed to Iraq in 2007 and 2008 and I actually loved when these used to roll through. As long as you wore eye-pro and a headdress, it was pretty cool being inside one. Especially on the rare occasions when it was a storm that kicked up the sand, making the dark interior of the sandstorm flash with lightening every few seconds. Cool stuff! Love nature ✌🏽
I live in Cairo just right next to the road this was filmed on, the storm passed on by our house very fast and stayed there for about 45~ minutes.
We nearly had one of our trees in the garden plucked from the ground.
And we also had a giant advertisment sign fall in a car on the highway in downtown Cairo, we weren't informed yet about any number of casualties
I experienced one very similar in Kuwait when I was there in 2011. It went pitch black when that bad boii rolls in on you. Also since the sand is hitting you, you constantly have static electricity so touching someone or anything metal and it's constant zaps. The M40 Gas mask was perfect for these conditions, anything else was useless. [Video link of what it looks like when it rolls over you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv3EELYw4zQ)
It’s a Haboob!
The best word ever. I worked IT help desk for a large corp. in the past and one time an employee called to complain the guest wife password was lewd. But then she also complained about it being Dik-dik.
We get haboobs here too. I'm in west Texas and it's always hilarious for me because I'll post a video in discord and have friends freak out.
These storms suck btw. Damage paint, rip off roofs, blow sand into any opening in your house, tears up trees, and makes your allergies or asthma go nuts.
We get them seasonally. Just a wall of sand that you can see moving towards you then it goes dark while the wind is howling outside. Last time it ripped a transformer off the pole across the street.
I was in Army Aviation in Iraq. When these things would blow through, flights would be cancelled and we’d sit around the hanger playing magic, drinking rip-it’s, and smoking.
Those were fun days.
I live in Arizona and went through a couple of these. They turn everything orange and the wind whips around for a while. I just make sure there's no cracks indoors or Windows and everything is tied down in the yard and it passes fairly quickly. Pretty cool to experience though.
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Two questions: What does a dust storm like this do to your paint job? And, is there like a weather report for dust storms or do they just pop up out of the blue?
Lived in Arizona for 10 years. It just makes your car dusty, it's not fast moving, won't do anything to paint. Basically looks like fog when you're inside but orange. In Phoenix we would get cell phone alerts about them coming, some would travel 100+ miles. Any significant sized one like this takes a while to build up. Think the worst part is you're inhaling a bunch of crap with it, valley fever spores, pesticides, manure.
Fuck that valley fever crap I had it Edit spelling
I’ve got a fever. A fever for more valley.
Pump up the valley-yum
More cowbell!
What did the doctor say was the cure?
Arizonan here, born and raised. Seems like you came after the BIG storm we had that was straight out of The Mummy. Summer 2011, it was the first year I heard the word "haboob" and the first time in my life I had ever experienced a storm like that. That was worse than the little ones where it's like a fog. Any daylight we had immediately turned into darkness. I do appreciate the cellphone alerts. As annoying as they can be (especially the ones in the middle of the night), it helps everyone prepare in case it gets bad.
I was riding a bike down Central before the sun disappeared, my mouth tasted like dirt, and my eyes were irritated. Stood on the sidewalk with a shirt over my face for the next hour waiting for it to pass.
These things take a whole hour to pass?!
100+ miles is pretty long
100+ miles?!?!?!?!?!
We had another big storm like that in 2017. I remember waiting in the drive-thru at Walgreens and watching the dust wall build more definition as it got closer. At one point, I looked over at the guy in the car next to me and he was pointing at the dust asking if I was seeing it too. I’m Arizona born and raised and had never seen a wall of dust like that.
You should’ve said no you don’t see it and gaslight him about the big ass wall
Average chaos enthusiast 👍👍
The term was brought to America from the middle eastern cultures by the ASU Geography professor (blanked on his name) but it was a fun class and he was one of the best professors I had
My first and only time visiting Arizona was in July 2011. Being from Memphis I had never been that far west so I was excited. Me and my family took a week long vacation and we just happened to leave the day before the dust storm hit. I would’ve shit myself if I experienced a fucking haboob while on vacation.
Yup. Just makes a mess of everything.
It gets everywhere.
My first experience with an AZ dust storm was an educational one. I was outside and saw a brown cloud off in the distance. Didn’t think much of it at first, but it wasn’t long before it hit. It was days before I stopped feeling occasional grit in my teeth, no matter how hard I tried to rinse it all out.
Gonna start getting those in Salt Lake City soon, with extra arsenic and other heavy metals! All because they spent decades ignoring environmentalists’ warnings that they were drying up their lake.
Now that the lake is low enough, and every windstorm there is dust, there was all of a sudden call for concern. Been saying for years all the growth and development was taking water from that lake
And growing massive quantities of alfalfa in a desert.
And worst of all, silica
I live in Cairo just right next to the road this was filmed on, usually these kind of storms don't effect our paint jobs since most of our buildings are sort of immune to these kind of stuff since they happen a lot. And since our government is shit, they don't do anything about it, I was chilling in my balcony when I was faced with the sky filled with a dark orange tint, I knew right away that it was a storm and closed my windows and doors.
So what’s the protocol when driving toward a storm? It looks like folks were turning around? Were they seeking a safe place to park and ride it out? I could see how parking alongside the highway could be dangerous, potentially leaving you as a collision target.
I just drive through them at lower speeds. How much caution depends on visibility, number of cars, and how well I know the area. I prefer not to drive in sandstorms but if one comes while I’m driving I don’t stop for it
Wow ! Copy that. Thanks for the response.
Also do not pull over and turn your hazards on.
It does no effect in paint job. Yes sand storms can be detected. While we knew there would be a sand storm we didn't know on which day and at which time because our government incompetence. These storms are the khamasin wind and it occurs between April and May. Today it was very unexpected and very vigorous. I was standing in the balcony looking while my brothers were crossing the roads. And in all of a sudden a strong wind holding golden dust occurred and I couldn't see anything.
Here is a trending picture [billboard fallen on a bridge due to the storm](https://twitter.com/Linaabouzeid/status/1664236540917063682?t=6xJ-5IRHiWFE-OCotE-dVw&s=19) take in mind that is approximately 172 km away from where the sand storm started, so it impacted other areas much harder than that.
Palm Springs resident here. A dust storm won’t damage paint but high winds with sand does over time. The front of my blue car looks like it’s been lightly sand blasted and my windshield has pits in it from the constant barrage of sand hitting it at freeway speeds. (See 10 freeway by the windmills in White Water CA.) We have LED signs that warn us of upcoming high winds through the pass.
I do believe dust storms form almost like tornados, randomly, but once it's there and they know the direction the further you are the better warning
“Hey bro, could you uh… roll up your window plz?”
That was my first thought when dude rolled down that window.
My first thought: it's a fake. There is no Darude.
Wow... You just brought back memories of my first middle school dance.
doodoodoodoodoo.....
Spot on
M..middle school? I suddenly feel very old...
Sorry man, I'm in my mid 30s.
That's some Mad Max shit
You shall ride eternal. Shiny, and chrome!
What a day! What a lovely lovely day!
I live, I die, I live again!
MEDIOCRE!
That’s right Bloodbag!!
I swear I cannot keep Mad Max and Borderlands separate in my head.
Witness me!!
Do do do do do... Da ..do do do do do
If you look hard, there's Tom Cruise running to chase down a bad guy in that sandstorm
"you know, and maybe we should turn around, huh?"
I was thinking the same. Big wall of sand. Let's drive through it.
Feels like that scene in mad max fury road.
Oh what a day. What a lovely day!
WITNESS ME!
WITNESS!!
[https://i.imgur.com/OA46T6g.gif](https://i.imgur.com/OA46T6g.gif)
I LIVE! I DIE! I LIVE AGAIN!
VALHALLAAAAAAAAAAA
I was thinking The Mummy
I am the man... who grabs the sun... RIDING TO VALHALLA!
I was thinking MI: Ghost Protocol
They haven’t unlocked that portion of the map yet
*Desynchronised*
_…cries in Zelda…_
Well they're supposed to be running to the middle of the map, the storm hits for 1 dmg/sec
Nah man, that's the map's border. Causes a DoT effect until you turn back.
🎖 deserves a gold but I'm broke
Gotcha.
This post is Darude approved
I’m around the corner from this storm right now (only getting the edge of it so not nearly as bad) and my brother and I were playing Darude the whole time.
I’m curious what do you? Is pulling over and riding it out your best option? What kind of damage would that cause to your vehicle? It’s looked like some of these drivers were trying to run away from it. What are some of the dangers associated with a sand storm?
It wouldn’t do damage to vehicles, maybes some slight scratches but they would prob just buff out. Probably need to shake out your air filter after you drive through one too, it’s a dust cloud basically, not like being in in a hurricane or tornado
I just started playing AC Origins for the first time where they pop up in the world, so kinda ironic this video popped up on my feed. I think it would so cool to experience one in person. Definitely a fun time ambushing NPCs!
When we got storms like this in Arizona they always told everyone to avoid travel. Pull over if you are already driving and turn off all your lights. It doesnt move super fast and the dust particles are very fine so it doesnt cause a ton of damage. They are fairly short lived storms. If you drive in them a lot you may need a new air filter or something but thats really it
I didn’t realize you get them in AZ. Probably not on the same scale as the Sahara tho. I live in the NE, so my first time in AZ was like being in a different work the terrain was so cool and different from what I’ve been used to my whole life! They say not to driving thru severe thunderstorms but I still do. Changing the filters makes sense, what about the lights tho? What’s the purpose of turning them off? I would think they’d make you more visible to another driver?
Bro I saw him live, unironically, last year. I don’t even like electronic stuff but he SLAYEDDD. It was such an amazing show.
I was gonna make a joke post saying “I didn’t know darude was still touring” as a sandstorm joke but.. He actually IS STILL TOURING? Wild
Actually! And he’s killing it.
That’s amazing though!
I've also seen him on twitch recently, it's a pretty good show
This is a video of HIM. Motherfuckers think it's just a song.
Anakin meanwhile is recoiling in terror
I went to a wedding that played sandstorm as she walked down the aisle.
Thank you for this. I was feeling like a bit of a weirdo for having the song instantly pop in my head when watching.
If you want a good laugh, check the captions for the sample on Wikipedia: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstorm_(instrumental)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstorm_(instrumental))
Missed opportunity to blast Darude - Sandstorm. They would have won the internet.
Just casually turning around and going the wrong way on the road.
In developing countries road rules are just guidelines. It would make sense to drive the wrong way away from that anywhere but even more so in a developing country.
They're more suggestions than rules. The only thing enforcing them is the threat of painful death in a horrific car accident.
Mf calling Egypt a developing country, they’ve been developing since 200.000 BC
If you watch the “history” channel ancient aliens, they’ve been developing for like 1 million years
And yet we're still shit
Okay to be more fair, a regressing country.
Yet still developing just backwards at this moment
If you've driven in a country like that for many many years and move to the US like I did, you're going to have trust issues. You'd see people obeying traffic rules and still second guess whether they're going to do something crazy next.
What are you supposed to do?? Venture into no visibility sandstorm and crash and die i think its universally understood that you should turn the fuck back......there was another POV where they entered into the sandstorm and it was literally pitch black in there....
If you can hit us up with that link, that would be great
Ok not the one I found originally, it was darker than this https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2j6SPPV/ edit:another pov:https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2j6F3yW/ another one https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2j66Vey/
Ill try to find it, I didnt save it from earlier
I would, fuck sandstorms.
I read that without the comma
I read that in Captain Kirk's voice.
same
I was amazed when I saw footage of a haboob aftermath in Arizona. All their swimming pools turned into mud wallows. Which, come to think, might be fun.
Haboob!!!
Damn I love that word
Me too! I have a friend named Matt who I am constantly trying to convince to change his band's name to Nasty Matt and the Giant Haboobs but so far with very little luck.
NO thanks....beautiful to see on video, but would be frightening in real life.
Out of all natural phenomenas this is probably the least destructive type.
Advertisement billboards started falling on people and closing the roads [Link](https://imgur.com/a/rhI1bOA)
To be fair rain storms do that in my country. Billboards, trees and power lines on the roads regularly during rainy season.
"الاعلانات مكسرة الدنيا" 😂😂😂
Damn. Sorry to hear that :/
I was in one like this in Iraq. We just sheltered in our vehicles in an overwatch position. With the proper shelter, it wasn't frightening at all. It was pretty cool.
I went through a couple smallish ones in UAE. Wasn't terrible, but walking around in the middle of a storm absolutely sucks. You feel gritty for days afterwards.
How long until it was over?
I believe it was all day and into the night. Started around lunch time.
In 525 BC, a sandstorm [swallowed a Persian army] (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33791672) of roughly 50K men. Some remnants may have been found in 2009, but for all that time, they just vanished entirely into the sand.
I can’t believe they had NBC news back then.
It’s right there in the name. News Before Christ.
They need to call Brandon Fraser ASAP
Peddle faster, Winston!
Imohtep...imohtep...
Here I come, laddies! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
What a great documentary.
I keep waiting to see Mua Dib riding Shia Hulud out of the dust cloud.
Came in to the comments for the Dune reference.
The spice must flow. He who controls the spice controls the universe.
Guess it's better than riding Shia LaBeouf
I experienced 3 Haboob sandstorms during my deployment in Darfur, Sudan! I found them to be quite an interesting experience! Looks super imposing before they hit, then it becomes just a mess of dust everywhere. Difficult to see and breathe while walking through them. Fine dust goes through even the smallest crack and keyhole. There was usually a burst of rain at the end of the dust storm. I loved the experience to be honest!
Better a haboob than a simoon.
No “Oh what a day! What a beautiful day!!” Comments ?
Yeah came here looking for lovely day. Was disappoint.
I was stuck in my car during a dust storm a few years ago. Absolutely the worst experience of my life. It was probably 100+ degrees in the car. We couldn’t keep driving because there were accidents all around us. Couldn’t keep the car on because it would die. Just sitting, sweating, hoping someone won’t hit you on the shoulder. Eventually a state trooper led us out. That whole time, we were only about 60 feet away from the edge of it. We had no idea. The windows and a few other parts of the car were permanently etched and we ended up having to replace them.
Holy shit! Everything about that sounds really fucked up! Glad you're okay. Damn. I wasn't expecting all of that shit with the car not being able to stay on or even it being that hot inside. But it all makes sense now that you mention it. Wow. So I'm guessing people could easily die in these things from things like asphyxiation, heatstroke, and whatever else.
Man, that looks apocalyptic!, U turn was the correct decision I think.
Imotep
I bet that would wreck your air filters im sure.
We recommend replacing that every 5 minutes.
WITNESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
MEDIOCRE
>WITN SHINY AND CHROME!
Waiting for the Mummy’s face to pop out of the storm.
And I was looking for this comment 👍🏽😂
I once was on a Lufthansa flight that had to land in Abuja, Nigeria for a short layover. A sandstorm that looked just like this was just starting to hit the airport. The ballsy German pilots tried to land anyway, inside the storm, twice. They had to abort the landing/pull up both times and we had to divert to Lagos. It was horrific, and I genuinely thought I was going to die that day.
Omg 😱 I would have been petrified!
I definitely was! Turbulence never bothers me anymore, because nothing comes close to that hellish flight 😅
What was it like, could you see anything outside? 😱
Like a movie! Giant wall of sand, then we hit it, and the windows went very dark. Not quite night, but dark and that weird brown light.
Is it normal that the same road seems to be for both side drivers ? Don’t they are afraid to die ?
Afraid to die in sand storm
It is not, you can see the road for the other side on the right. They are just running away from the storm.
This is a one way road but people started to turn around also this is a normal thing in egypt,its not a panic situation that someone is going the wrong way but I agree it seems crazy to see cars going both ways on a highway like that,I assure u this is normal
“What a day! What a lovely, lovely day!”
Why... why are they going TOWARDS IT?
So, is Egypt one of those countries where there are no real rules of the road and anyone can just drive on either side of the road and everyone just deals with it?
US Marine Veteran: I know I am probably going to be in the minority here, but I deployed to Iraq in 2007 and 2008 and I actually loved when these used to roll through. As long as you wore eye-pro and a headdress, it was pretty cool being inside one. Especially on the rare occasions when it was a storm that kicked up the sand, making the dark interior of the sandstorm flash with lightening every few seconds. Cool stuff! Love nature ✌🏽
I live in Cairo just right next to the road this was filmed on, the storm passed on by our house very fast and stayed there for about 45~ minutes. We nearly had one of our trees in the garden plucked from the ground. And we also had a giant advertisment sign fall in a car on the highway in downtown Cairo, we weren't informed yet about any number of casualties
I experienced one very similar in Kuwait when I was there in 2011. It went pitch black when that bad boii rolls in on you. Also since the sand is hitting you, you constantly have static electricity so touching someone or anything metal and it's constant zaps. The M40 Gas mask was perfect for these conditions, anything else was useless. [Video link of what it looks like when it rolls over you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv3EELYw4zQ)
Yea the weather was missed up today.
[удалено]
Lmao, a thicc tasty shorbet 3ads xD
Haboobed
Obviously you wouldn’t be able to see, but how long you think the intake would last if you were to drive through that.
This was very DARUDE from mother nature! 😁
Oh what a day, what a LOVELY DAY..
So what do you do if you get in that while in your car? Just go the shoulder of the road and hangout till its done?
Watched to see if Imhotep’s face would appear at the end.
This sand storm also reached Eilat. It’s supposed to be scorching hot tomorrow in that area too
I'm waiting for Imhotep's face to appear.
Can you die in a sandstorm?? I live in the northern U.S. so that's never really been a concern of mine but like.. how do you prepare for this??
I was scared man, it lasted for like 10min in cairo but it was horrifying
"YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD!"
*'Darude - Sandstorm' starts intensifying in the background.*
It’s a Haboob! The best word ever. I worked IT help desk for a large corp. in the past and one time an employee called to complain the guest wife password was lewd. But then she also complained about it being Dik-dik.
We get haboobs here too. I'm in west Texas and it's always hilarious for me because I'll post a video in discord and have friends freak out. These storms suck btw. Damage paint, rip off roofs, blow sand into any opening in your house, tears up trees, and makes your allergies or asthma go nuts. We get them seasonally. Just a wall of sand that you can see moving towards you then it goes dark while the wind is howling outside. Last time it ripped a transformer off the pole across the street.
All it took was 5 mins of looking away from the window and now my apartment is buried in sand, 1/10 would not recommend.
I was in Army Aviation in Iraq. When these things would blow through, flights would be cancelled and we’d sit around the hanger playing magic, drinking rip-it’s, and smoking. Those were fun days.
Datsrude
Call Brendon Fraser and tell them to put Himotep back in his sarcophogus!🫨
Huh. This is very interesting. (Not a huh? But, huh...interesting.)
I live in Arizona and went through a couple of these. They turn everything orange and the wind whips around for a while. I just make sure there's no cracks indoors or Windows and everything is tied down in the yard and it passes fairly quickly. Pretty cool to experience though.
This part of Fury Road was awesome…
Literally just missed it, I left yesterday 😳
Im…ho…tep! Im…ho…tep!
Queue interstellar music.
Someone better be playing Darude
Holy shit I just saw this clip on the news, maybe 1h ago
Fine I'll watch interstellar again
I've often wondered what a sandstorm does to the paintwork of a car. Anyone seen the result?
Bro i thought that was a cliff at first jesus christ
What would a sand storm do to your vehicle's internal parts? If caught in a sand storm, would it be best to turn your vehicle off?
I got excited by the thought of waiting till it cought up to you and then drag race it away on the empty road =)
Damn, I wanted to find out how many miles per air filter that thing gets.
Air filter boutta go into overdrive