Dust Storm Engulfs Arizona, Leaving Thousands Without Power And Flights Grounded

A towering particulate unreality caused havoc successful Arizona connected Monday, grounding flights and leaving thousands without power.

The slow-moving unreality — known arsenic a haboob — deed parts of Phoenix and Arizona City, 60 miles to nan southeast, precocious Monday afternoon, astatine 1 constituent leaving 15,000 power customers successful nan dark. The number still without powerfulness Tuesday greeting was much than 5,000 according to Poweroutage.us, mostly successful Maricopa County.

Videos posted to societal media showed full neighborhoods engulfed successful acheronian arsenic nan particulate large wind rolled through. One video changeable from a passing level showed nan sheer widen of nan cloud, stretching for miles into nan distance.

A haboob is kicked up by nan winds of a large wind and typically affects arid, wide unfastened spaces.

Heavy winds and rainfall followed nan particulate storm, causing delays astatine Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, nan country's 11th busiest airport, which suffered immoderate harm to a terminal roof.

Heather Shelbrack, nan airport’s lawman aviation head for nationalist relations, told nan Associated Press news agency that unit were "identifying leaks and attempting to cleanable up h2o wherever it has collected successful rider areas."

Flash flood warnings were successful spot successful immoderate parts of Arizona and eastbound California Monday night. Police successful Gilbert, southeast of Phoenix, said dense rainfall brought down trees and caused postulation ray outages.

The Arizona Department of Transport earlier this summertime advised motorists to ne'er thrust into a particulate large wind and to pull over wherever safe to do truthful successful nan arena of getting stuck wrong one.

Dust storms and 50 mph winds caused problems for campers astatine nan Burning Man show successful Nevada's Black Rock Desert complete nan weekend.