Today we had a sandstorm come in. This one wasn't as magnificant as the sandstorm in Al Asad last year that made the national news in the states but it was still impressive. You could see the storm come from far off and from the one pic below you can see that a sandstorm is essentially a wall of sand swirling about hundreds of feet high into the air. All of this sand in the air can literally block the sun out but as you can see from the other pic here that wasn't the case today. Also everything takes on an eery orange in the midday.




The air is really pretty calm until the sand storm hits the you pretty much run inside since sand will get everywhere. It's not worth it to drive or fly or do anything. Everything is pretty much at a standstill until the storm passes.

This sandstorm was also supposed to produce rain but it didn't. When it does rain during a sandstorm, it's like raining mud.