I never thought a sandstorm looked like this!

alleepally

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sandstorm.htm

It's like a scene from The Mummy... Incredible!

danniemcq

haha it's a protestants christmas dream! and orange christmas

*yes i know it was taken in april!

alleepally

oh ffs, don't tell me i've been april fooled in November?

BrokenArrows

dam thats cool.

Cake Fiend

There's a video of a similar storm somewhere about on the net, it's freaky-looking. Visibility drops to a few feet when the sand closes in!

Kernel

Here ye go:

http://www.break.com/articles/sandstorm.html

cournioni

LOL. Does anyone in Iraq not buy a Toyota pickup?

RedRaven

alleepally wrote:

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sandstorm.htm

It's like a scene from The Mummy... Incredible!

Thats not a sand storm!!!! Thats the dust cloud from a US daisy cutter bomb that they just dropped on some civillians!!!

robinph

Heres a couple more:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4491531.stm

and from inside the storm:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4132388.stm

Rhyme

Puzzling, why dont they get the hell out of there?

robinph

Rhyme wrote:

Puzzling, why dont they get the hell out of there?

Do you mean Iraq?

Rhyme

robinph wrote:

Do you mean Iraq?

No the sand coming towards them... some of those people were calmly walking towards it, others strolling around. Id be hightailing it to somewhere safe.

robinph

Rhyme wrote:

No the sand coming towards them... some of those people were calmly walking towards it, others strolling around. Id be hightailing it to somewhere safe.

If that was to happen in Ireland then yes I'd be getting the hell out of the way, but its only a bit of sand. If it was a hail storm coming at them then I'd expect them to be running though, and what would we be doing in that situation?

UnrealQueen

That is terrifying. Imagine looking up and seeing that coming towards you:eek:

Angels

alleepally wrote:

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sandstorm.htm

It's like a scene from The Mummy... Incredible!

There amazing pictures :cool:

iceman_2001_ie

That video is hilarious

You see a guy standing around, looking at the coming storm.

Then a overweight woman is uber tight jeans, wanders past carrying what one can only assume is her lunch.

Right near the end of the video, you hear one of the voices complain that he's forgotten his laundry.

Somnus

That is f**kin cool

spiderlegs

I would not wanna be caught in that!

danniemcq

do you remember a few years back 9+ that a sandstorm hit the sahara and carried the dust the wholoe way to here covering cars and well everything in a fine layer of sand?

faceman

Dudes uve been had, thats not a sandstorm. Its obviously a candyfloss machine overflowing..

paul666

danniemcq wrote:

do you remember a few years back 9+ that a sandstorm hit the sahara and carried the dust the wholoe way to here covering cars and well everything in a fine layer of sand?

i remember that yea there was a thin film of sand on the cars and the weather guys even forcasted it

el Bastardo

Nothing cool about sandstorms. The sand is in really fine particles and fúcks with your skin, eyes and lungs, making you feel ****ty for days afterwards.

the_syco

Nice weapons bunker: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sand012.jpg

Cool, tho. Cool, as in the massive display of earths power.