Sand Monster

In my last post I shared my experiences with a sand storm that blew in the previous night. Unbeknownst to me what we saw was just the after effects of a much larger storm that occured to the north earlier that day. A good friend of mine, Steve Briscoe, is stationed at Al Asad Air Base as a civillian contractor. Below are some pretty amazing pictures he sent me.

This huge wall of sand came barreling in at approximately 60 miles per hour.

And you thought those scenes in "The Mummy Returns" were just Hollywood hype.

Steve described what began as a clear, sunny day becoming as dark as night within minutes of the cloud engulfing them.