In the States through media we're all familiar with the terrible wonder of earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes. We rarely get access to recorded examples of the power of sandstorms. Caught these clips of sandstorms currently floating across the Web. The first is from Al Asad airbase in Iraq, from April 2005. As the storm envelopes the viewer the environment turns to absolute darkness. And it sounds so intense:
The second is from Khartoum, Sudan, in April this year. Watch as the sand cloud crawls over the cityspace and simply swallows it. Exciting:
See this blog from the Fletcher School at Tufts University for a report on how a haboub is experienced: "But to tell you the truth, I love the haboub. So you might feel even dustier than usual. You might wake up in a bed full of sand. But the haboub also cools down the city to an extent yet unexperienced during my short stay." Link.