Awesome sandstorm in Iraq!
Eutrusca
03-05-2005, 16:09
No real commentary here. I just thought these pictures of a massive sandstorm in Iraq were interesting. I've been in jungles where a ten-foot field of vision was normal, and in rainstorms so heavy there was no field of vision, but never in a sandstorm, thankfully.
http://img220.echo.cx/img220/5206/sandstorm11uu.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img252.echo.cx/img252/404/sandstorm23aa.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img252.echo.cx/img252/1153/sandstorm36nt.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Bunnyducks
03-05-2005, 16:12
Meh. The sandstorms used to be better back when Saddam was in power.
Eutrusca
03-05-2005, 16:13
Meh. The sandstorms used to be better back when Saddam was in power.
Heh! What ... EVER! :D
Whispering Legs
03-05-2005, 16:16
In the first Gulf War, I was in several sandstorms. The best one came when we were having a break for lunch, and the sky turned orange before the sand came. Then the rain came - like a heavy shower, but it was black from the smoke of the oil fires. Then the sandstorm itself rolled over us, and it really stung. And then there was lighting and thunder all through it - it looked like we were in an orange cloud with green and blue lightning, with the sun occasionally peeking through the dust cloud.
On my Biblical Intensity Meter, it was about an 8.5.
Dempublicents1
03-05-2005, 16:22
One of my coworkers showed us those pictures. Her stepdad is apparently stationed there and got to see it all first hand.
I love the pictures with all the people just standing there watching it come - it was moving at like 60 mph!
New Sancrosanctia
03-05-2005, 16:26
that's amazing. it took a second to realize that wasn't a mountain.
on a side note, pappy, sharon's views on my enlistment are now moot.
THAT... IS... F'AWESOME! :eek:
An American soldier I know on the ground over there posted similar-looking pictures to his blog a day or so ago.
Wrote that "The Mummy" was suddenly a lot more plausible.
Myrmidonisia
03-05-2005, 17:05
In the first Gulf War, I was in several sandstorms. The best one came when we were having a break for lunch, and the sky turned orange before the sand came. Then the rain came - like a heavy shower, but it was black from the smoke of the oil fires. Then the sandstorm itself rolled over us, and it really stung. And then there was lighting and thunder all through it - it looked like we were in an orange cloud with green and blue lightning, with the sun occasionally peeking through the dust cloud.
On my Biblical Intensity Meter, it was about an 8.5.
I remember looking at my watch one morning after the war was winding down. We were still in Kuwait, but waiting to be withdrawn. The watch said it was around 9 am, but it was still black as night. The smoke from those oil well fires must have been incredibly thick.
The sandstorm pictures are great. Thanks.
Hado-Kusanagi
03-05-2005, 17:23
Thanks for posting those sandstorm pics, they are really impressive!
nice pics... thanks for sharing.
Eutrusca
03-05-2005, 17:35
that's amazing. it took a second to realize that wasn't a mountain.
on a side note, pappy, sharon's views on my enlistment are now moot.
Ouch. Should I offer condolences? :(
Kroblexskij
03-05-2005, 17:40
wow, its like that one of the truck escaping the pyroclastic flow, i lost that when the hard disk died. :(
New Sancrosanctia
03-05-2005, 17:40
Ouch. Should I offer condolences? :(
eh. i'll be aight. feel free to im for the sordid details, if such is your wish.
That thing is fucking insane. It's like a wave of sand on the desert.
German Nightmare
03-05-2005, 18:28
Welcome to Tatooine - and why it really sucks to be a desert stormtrooper...
Now where the hell did I park my Dewback?
Mystic Mindinao
03-05-2005, 18:31
Truely amazing. Yet I know I'd hate to live through one. Imagine all the sand in my eyes. Hopefully, it isn't as bad as what my grandma described for the Dustbowl.
Whispering Legs
03-05-2005, 18:35
It's not just sand. There's dust... and it's insidious. It gets into everything.
I'm talking finer than talcum powder dust. Try washing it out of your clothes.
Frangland
03-05-2005, 18:44
Meh... it's just artwork from the set of The Mummy III -- Brendan Fraser Gets Killed
Whispering Legs
03-05-2005, 18:53
Meh... it's just artwork from the set of The Mummy III -- Brendan Fraser Gets Killed
Thank the Lord!
New Sancrosanctia
03-05-2005, 19:49
It's not just sand. There's dust... and it's insidious. It gets into everything.
I'm talking finer than talcum powder dust. Try washing it out of your clothes.
let alone urethra.
Eutrusca
03-05-2005, 20:00
let alone urethra.
ROFL! Um ... I've been told it can be really ... abrasive. Ick!
Whispering Legs
03-05-2005, 20:21
let alone urethra.
Ok, I wasn't going to mention the ball sac problem...
Whispering Legs
03-05-2005, 20:28
http://www.razzorr.com/post/14jan05/GoldBondPowder.wmv
For those of you who need to know what Gold Bond medicated powder is really used for.
Gurdenvazk
03-05-2005, 22:02
http://www.razzorr.com/post/14jan05/GoldBondPowder.wmv
For those of you who need to know what Gold Bond medicated powder is really used for.
That's great man.
The South Islands
03-05-2005, 22:41
Thos pics is crazy, man.
Secluded Islands
03-05-2005, 22:47
thats kewl eutrusca,
man it would suck to get caught out in that...
Technottoma
03-05-2005, 23:01
WHAT THE CRAP IS GOLD BOND POWDER? Those guys must've had alot of time on their hands.
The pictures of the sandstorm are really cool. I wonder if that's worse than the ones during the Dustbowl.