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Aerial View Of Phoenix Disappearing Under A 5,000 Foot Dust Storm
While without much direct implication for ponzi market navigation strategy and tactics, the attached videos of Phoenix disappearing under a 5,000 foot tall dust storm, which at time was as tall as 10,000 feet, is stunning in its own right. As the Huffington Post reports "the massive dust cloud, also known as a "haboob," was around 5,000 feet when it arrived in Phoenix,
but radar data reveals that it reached heights anywhere from 8,000 to
10,000 feet high prior. The storm appeared to be around 50 miles wide
in some areas, KSAZ-TV reported. The dust storm originated in Tucson,
and was a part of Arizona's monsoon season. According to CNN, the dust storm prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a ground stop on flights at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport
for about an hour and 15 minutes. At it's peak, the storm left 10,000
customers without power, Jenna Shaver of the Arizona Public Service told
CNN."
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I've seen that before in the Mummy movies! But that time, it was computer-generated!
I don't think I would have liked to be in the helicopters that were shooting those vids. Imagine what would happen if all that dust clogged the rotors, engines, and whatnot!
it's a few guys from The Treasury rolling out the old smoke and mirrors trick. Next month they'll take it to Kentucky. Show y'all how it "might" look like there's no gold there, but there is really. You just can't help forgettin' about the gold and wondering, how do they do that?
Oh, it is sand!!
I thought it was Ben having gone full throttle on the money printing
It was nothing. 20 minutes of rain, followed by a few hours of nothing, then another 20 minutes of rain.
Left some dust though. It was cool as in visually, it was like a mist of wet dust was all through the air, so in that it was a little unusual.
But we get haboobs like this a bit regularly, if not less so since Phx is so built up now as compared to a few decades ago when they'd come much more regularly.
Our monsoon usually brings out much tougher storms, that might not be as visually appealing as this one, but can give us much more rain.
Overall though weather wise, it really was nothing, except cool looking, and dropped the temps 20+ degrees.
10,000 people without power out of 4 million isn't much (considering the lines hadn't been stressed by a storm for a good while)
There was a transformer fire a week ago that sent the mesa area into a blackout last week affecting about 20-30 times more people fwiw on a 117 degree day lol.
Thanks for the videos.
Glass-Steagall
And even if you had a generator and an evap cooler, evap coolers aren't as effective during monsoon. My casa had a combo unit on the roof A/C & evap, controlled at the t-stat.
While some may joke, dust storms like this are not to be taken lightly. I'm sure that our military from Iraq experience can tell you how much the sand fouls things up and a storm like this is murder on maintenance items. Not to mention the health problems (breathing). Now if they start increasing in frequency......some of the dust bowl storms back in the 30's were nasty enough to spread dirt from the plains, to New York City.
This is a light dust. It happened probably 5x more frequently in the 70's. When I was a kid it happened more regularly in the 80's.
It's just visually enticing, not really much of a threat beyond aviation. Sure some 'maintenance' items, but meh, nothing really special. It's just one of those things, and once a year or two, with the occasional year with a 2-3, isn't a big deal.
Really, this was NOTHING. A snowstorm up north during the winter ANYWHERE in the U.S. is 100x more dangerous than this.
So pull over for a few minutes from the road. That's about it. Car and plane accidents. Visibility.
One disaster, also known as the Phoenix real estate market, being entombed by another. Keep it up and 1000 years from now some archeologist will be digging it up and trying to figure out why every dwelling in this civilization was equipped with a “for sale” sign.
That's just special-FX for Roland Emmerich's new movie.
Phoenix stinks...crime there is astronomical...can't walk the streets a tnight ...even the Malls are dangerous. This dust storm only makes it worse.
Wonder how all those Govt. subsidized solar panels are holding up?
i love the way the story says the dust storm is also known as a "haboob". this is arabic for "strong wind". no doubt in arabic speaking countries they are now calling these things a "strong wind", as their own plain descriptive words arent as good as someone else's.
...which is why it's insane to live in a place with a desert climate, next-to-no natural water supply, miles from the coast and with no jobs and still-ridiculous house prices...
All Aboard!