30 Most Incredible Sandstorms On Earth
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Cities Devoured by Sand
1. In April 2005, a massive sandstorm rose over the US military camp in Al Asad, Iraq, just before nightfall. Yeah, OK, it’s not strictly a city but served as one, practically. These pics are probably the most famous of all recently photographed sandstorms, with a number of images by various military personal circulating the internet.
Cpl Alicia Garcia, US Marine Corps
2. Sandstorm approaching Bajrawia pyramids in the Sudan. We don’t often hear of these pyramids and there seems to be little written about them, so if anyone has visited them, lives near them or knows their history, do get in touch.
3. It’s not surprising that sandstorms sweep through the Sudan; whole cities are engulfed by them regularly. Sudanese refugee camps are often hit hard.
4. A prolonged drought in the great plains of the US during the 1930s left vast dry, dusty areas exposed. And because farmers at the time heavily ploughed already dry grasslands to plant wheat, the whole situation was much worse than it could have been. The same thing is now happening in various parts of world, including outback Australia, where sandstorms now reach the cities on the coast.
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5. Great images of a massive sandstorm in Khartoum. Check out the second image; you can tell the people are used to these as they’re going about their daily business as if nothing is happening. That, or they have no idea what’s hiding behind the buildings, heading their way.
6. The infamous pyramids at Giza must have seen a few sandstorms in their day. Cairo, which is just out of shot of the Pyramids no doubt bears the brunt of the storms, too.
7. This scary scene was captured in the evening, near Wakeeney, Kansas, just before the storm blocked out the sun and enveloped the town. The sandstorm is said to have caused the death of a Kansas State Senator and one other person.
8. Imagine waking up to this foreboding scene first thing in the morning. You’d definitely just head back to bed and wait for it all to pass.
Robert Bruno
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September 25th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Amazing what mother nature is capable.
February 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am
My Daughter and her husband are stationed at Al Asad right now and last night I was asking her about the sand storms. She told me to google them so I did and to my surprise I found a lot of pics of a sandstorm right there in Al Asad from 2005. They are really good pics. I could not imagin being in the middle of some thing like that. My hat is off to all the milatery over there just for being there and especialy now seeing the sort of thing they have to endure.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
this is the bomb and the next sandstorm is gonna hit claifornia