Do you remember the movie, the Mummy, no special effects here... This is REAL...
Sand Storm, 26 April 2005. Al Asad, IRAQ
It's a wall of sand traveling at 60 mph. :eek:

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That can't be good for your paint...

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This picture was taken 1 min later and its dark as night. Reporting live from Al Asad, Air Base.

Wow, thats pretty neat! I didn't know that could happen

Wow......those are pretty amazing. Thanks for posting the pics, and be safe!

I'm not there, but a friend e-mailed these - pretty wild storm!

Thats happened in arizona before. !!

I think this would also fall in with your "DAAAAMN" pics. :D

WOW, I've never seen a sand storm...scary stuff...

Yep i have a friend thats there and told they had to keep cleaning there weapons our they would jam when they were heading there.Sand was everywere

i lived in kuwait for two years, its the worst thing in the world when this happens. Seal your eyes and also keep sand from goig up your nose.

i lived in kuwait for two years, its the worst thing in the world when this happens. Seal your eyes and also keep sand from goig up your nose.
I didn't know you lived in Kuwait, that's interesting Feras. Do you have family there?

Those storms are definitely neat looking though I think I'd much prefer being inside until it was finished, the pictures are good enough for me. :p

I didn't know you lived in Kuwait, that's interesting Feras. Do you have family there?

Those storms are definitely neat looking though I think I'd much prefer being inside until it was finished, the pictures are good enough for me. :p

i have an uncle and aunt who still live there my dad was there because he was conducting some sort of medical research at the university there. Penguins and sand dont get along.

Awesome pics, thanks for posting those. I'd like to see the after pics.....I'll bet there is a foot of sand all over everything. :eek:

Insane !

Interesting, My friend just e-mailed me the same pics!

Most be going around the Net by now

I'm in Kuwait. Been here 4 months. 8 to go. Then I get to buy an 8.

The sand is everywhere. You shower...and it's still on you, because you have to walk back to your tent...thru the sand.

We haven't had full blown sand storms yet this year, but we've had some decent "dust-ups," or so I call them - in the morning you can start to see the smudgy look of far off terrain and you know it's going to be windy and sandy by 10am. Oddly enough, we usually got them the day after it rained.

It's been steadily getting hotter, with many days over 100 deg F, and our current record is 107 deg F. The worst days were only around 95-100 degrees though - the bad part about Kuwait is you're right on the Persian Gulf, which means HUMIDITY. The really hot days were actually dry, and not that bad, but that humidity just kills you.

I'll see if I can rustle up some good pix to post...

I was in the same shit over there but had no camera at the time,great photos ;)