I have a picture (or series of pictures) I would like to post but being on a Mac find it impossible. Can I email it to one of you to post for me? Any takers?
Wow I posted these on behalf of Frank Day who cannot post pics. These are photos of an actual Sandstorm survived by our US troops. I am not sure if this is Kuwait or Iraq. There were more pics but these were the best ones.
that would make for one serious real world conditions wind tunnel…dang…best put the LG helmet visor down for that one…shields up!
WTF is this (aside from incredible)?
a sandstorm bordering on biblical proportions or so it appears
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I was a USMC grunt during the first gulf war and we went through 2 of those bastards while living in the field on the border of Kuwait a few weeks before the ground war started.
The entire world changes shape during/after one of those. You get sand in place you had no idea sand could go. Breathing is near impossible and you cough and blow brown snot for a week afterward.
Every foxhole was at a 50% alert at all times, and during your rest period you climb as deep as possbile into the bottom of your sleeping bag and hope your buddy would be able to unbury you when it was your turn.
Unbelieveably amazing stuff. Made you realize how insignificant you really were.
now that all the pics are up…holy crap…that looks brutal. Hats off to you man for not only getting through one of them but two. Cripes I’d be hightailing it out of dodge after the first blew through. Funny though…in some of the pics there are people standing in the great wide open like this is something that happens every day and la dee da.
Is that from a scene from the movie “Independence Day”?
Is that from a scene from the movie “Independence Day”?
I think it’s clips from the making of the movie “Hildago”. I heard they used a real sandstorm instead of CGI 
OR could it be from that movie with The Rock…The Scorpion King…Anyone know?
This isn’t a scene from a movie, it is in the Kuwaiti desert. It shut down virtually all activity for 36 hours, going from light to dark in seconds.
It’s called “shamal” (that’s my phonetic spelling). I lived in Abu Dhabi/Kuwait in the late 90s and we’d see 1-2 of those a year. One word - ominous! By the way, canvas boat covers that are already dry rotted from the desert sun do not hold up well in one of those, and getting all that sand out of your boat is a pain.